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Every Time I Look for You · Blink-182

EXERCISE 1 OF 30
Groove D -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Every Time I Look for You on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-15, toms through bars 16-19, ride through bars 20-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32 and snare through bars 33-37, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x----x--x----x--|
Every Time I Look for You -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B, L -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 26-57 -- 9 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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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