Every Time I Look for You · Blink-182

94 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 2:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

PunkPop120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13, 15 and 25-26, and 9 more places -- 23.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 128 BPM
EVERY TIME I LOOK FOR YOU · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 13 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 16-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

94 bars across 11 sections: 47 keep time, 19 are fills, 3 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 69-79.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART B
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART I
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDLBIS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Every Time I Look for You?

128 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Every Time I Look for You hard to play on drums?

55 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 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Every Time I Look for You?

5 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED
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