EDGING · blink-182

90 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 2:30 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopPunk120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
2:30
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-9, 11-17 and 31-39 -- 27.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 144 BPM
EDGING · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 18, 22, 48, 50, 52, 54 and 6 more.

LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 7 sections: 42 keep time, 12 are fills, 24 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-17.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART A
BREAK
OUTRO
6 groovesCLS7FA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is EDGING?

144 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 EDGING hard to play on drums?

61 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 2:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 EDGING?

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 18, 22, 48, 50, 52, 54 and 6 more.

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