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Don't Tell Me That It's Over · blink-182

EXERCISE 7 OF 29
Groove C -- Part C (a two-bar phrase)
85 / 152 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART S3
PART C
CHORUS
PART M
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesFCMOL+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Don't Tell Me That It's Over on drums

152 bars at 230 BPM -- fast, and 2:39 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
230 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
2:39
DIFFICULTY
47/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-5, silence through bars 6-8, kick and crashes through bars 9-13, silence through bars 14-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24 and ride through bars 25-40, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-27, 29-30 and 33-35, and 13 more places -- 27.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    25               26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
RD |----x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x---x-|--x---x---x-----|
Don't Tell Me That It's Over -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 24, 32, 40, 72, 80, 88 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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, I (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Bars 25-64 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 61-104 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Don't Tell Me That It's Over?

230 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 Don't Tell Me That It's Over hard to play on drums?

47 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 2:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Don't Tell Me That It's Over?

2 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 24, 32, 40, 72, 80, 88 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED