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Down · blink-182

EXERCISE 3 OF 18
Groove D -- Part D
51 / 72 BARS COVERED
0 / 18 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Down on drums

72 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 3:04 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
76/100

silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-72.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-16, 24-31 and 34-41, and 2 more places -- 73.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    5                                6
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
HH |----x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |------x-------g---------x-----gg|------x-------g---------x--g-g-g|
BD |x---------x-----x-----x---------|x---------x-----x-----x---------|
Down -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 19, 21, 23, 45, 46 and 48.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 17-47 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Down?

94 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Down hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Down?

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 19, 21, 23, 45, 46 and 48.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED