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EDGING · blink-182

EXERCISE 14 OF 38
Groove J
49 / 90 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART L, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play EDGING on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
2:30
DIFFICULTY
61/100

hi-hat through bars 1-2, toms through bars 3-18, kick and crashes through bars 19-21, snare through bars 22-29, toms through bars 30-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-55, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    3
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
SD |------x-----------x-----|
T1 |---------x--------------|
T2 |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
BD |x--x--------x--x--------|
EDGING -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- C, A -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 26-64 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part L -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 61-73 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED