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Dumpweed · blink-182

EXERCISE 1 OF 38
Groove L -- Outro 2 (a two-bar phrase)
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PART A
PART D
PART H
CHORUS
PART Q
PART D
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesLHQDAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dumpweed on drums

120 bars at 196 BPM -- fast, and 2:27 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
196 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
2:27
DIFFICULTY
79/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, ride through bars 33-40, hi-hat through bars 41-48 and snare through bars 49-56, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 35-37, 67-69 and 89-95, and 3 more places -- 28.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    35               36
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |X---------------|----------------|
RD |----x-X---x-X---|x-x-X---x-x-x-x-|
HH |--------------o-|--x-o-----------|
SD |--------X-------|--------X-------|
BD |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
HF |----------------|x-------x-------|
Dumpweed -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 2, 6, 8, 16, 34, 39 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- L -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dumpweed?

196 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 Dumpweed hard to play on drums?

79 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?

120 bars, about 2:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 11 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

6 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 2, 6, 8, 16, 34, 39 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED