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Easy Target · blink-182

EXERCISE 1 OF 29
Groove B -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
0 / 77 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 27 BARS LIT
PART A
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBDIJA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Easy Target on drums

77 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 1:56 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
1:56
DIFFICULTY
85/100

snare through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-44, ride through bars 45-52, hi-hat through bars 53-60, ride through bars 61-69 and kick and crashes through bars 70-71, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-12, 29-36 and 53-59, and 1 more place -- 35.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    5                6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |x---x---x-x-x---|x---x-x---x-x---|
BD |x---x---x-x-x---|x---x-x---x-x---|
Easy Target -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 28, 44 and 60.

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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 25-56 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 60-69 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Easy Target?

160 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 Easy Target hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 1:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 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 Easy Target?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 28, 44 and 60.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED