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Dysentery Gary · blink-182

EXERCISE 3 OF 51
Groove X -- Outro (a two-bar phrase)
58 / 151 BARS COVERED
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PART E
PART H
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART M
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesKHEMX+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 7
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dysentery Gary on drums

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

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

TEMPO
216 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
2:48
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-3, toms through bars 4-6, snare through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-22, toms through bars 23-24 and hi-hat through bars 25-32, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31, 41 and 43, and 25 more places -- 27% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----|
Dysentery Gary -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 23, 24 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- K, M -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part A and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Bars 13-25 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 21-50 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Bars 32-41 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dysentery Gary?

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 Dysentery Gary hard to play on drums?

60 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 33 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 40 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Dysentery Gary?

10 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 23, 24 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 151 BARS ANALYSED