Dick Lips · blink-182

93 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 3:00 of playing, on crash, ride, snare and kick.

PunkPop120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
90/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 17-23 and 33-39, and 2 more places -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 124 BPM
DICK LIPS · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 24, 40, 56, 68, 77 and 4 more.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BARS 77-80 · LANDS ON BAR 81 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 88 · LANDS ON BAR 89
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

93 bars across 11 sections: 61 keep time, 10 are fills and 7 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-7.

INTRO
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART C
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesACDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dick Lips?

124 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Dick Lips hard to play on drums?

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Dick Lips?

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 24, 40, 56, 68, 77 and 4 more.

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