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Dammit · blink-182

EXERCISE 6 OF 44
Groove D
70 / 151 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
COUNT-IN
PART C
PART E
PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART B
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART P
OUTRO 2
7 groovesKHBEP+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 9
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dammit on drums

151 bars at 216 BPM -- fast, and 2:48 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
216 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
2:48
DIFFICULTY
72/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, ride through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-48, ride through bars 49-72 and hi-hat through bars 73-88, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 33-35, and 7 more places -- 18.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
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

5 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 24, 28, 32, 48, 52, 56 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- B, K -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through Part E -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part C and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part H -- 7 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  6. Bars 25-44 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Bars 46-61 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dammit?

216 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?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 2:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, 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?

5 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 24, 28, 32, 48, 52, 56 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 151 BARS ANALYSED