Emo · blink-182

83 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 2:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO

123 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

83

LENGTH

2:42

DIFFICULTY

74/100

hi-hat through bars 2-10, ride through bars 11-26, hi-hat through bars 27-38, ride through bars 39-46, hi-hat through bars 47-54 and ride through bars 55-59, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 11-13, 15-17 and 19-21, and 5 more places -- 31.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    11               12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x---|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|--x---x---x-----|
T1 |----------------|--------------x-|
T2 |----------------|---------------x|
FT |----------------|---------------x|
BD |x---xx-x-x--xx--|xx--xx-x-x--xx--|

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 10, 34, 36, 38, 54 and 4 more.

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 -- F -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
5. Bars 7-47 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
6. Bars 47-59 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
7. Bars 55-73 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
8. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
9. and 1 more sittings after that.