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Dammit · Blink 182

EXERCISE 23 OF 37
Join Part I to Part C (bars 70-72)
116 / 145 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I, PART C
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART I
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFCIJM+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dammit on drums

145 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 2:38 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
2:38
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-55, snare through bars 56-62, hi-hat through bars 63-64 and snare through bars 65-70, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-23, 26-27 and 29-31, and 10 more places -- 26.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Dammit -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 7, 8, 32, 56, 96, 128 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- F, C -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Bars 28-62 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 17-71 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 68-115 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part J and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dammit?

220 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Dammit hard to play on drums?

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 2:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Dammit?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 7, 8, 32, 56, 96, 128 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED