Family Reunion · Blink 182

13 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 0:21 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
13
LENGTH
0:21
DIFFICULTY
34/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8 -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 150 BPM
FAMILY REUNION · BAR 7
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 9 and 13.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 13
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

13 bars across 2 sections: 4 keep time, 2 are fills, 3 are stops and 4 are silent.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Family Reunion?

150 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 Family Reunion hard to play on drums?

34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

13 bars, about 0:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Family Reunion?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 9 and 13.

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