First Date · blink-182

131 bars at 192 BPM -- fast, and 2:44 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and upBeginner
TEMPO
192 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
2:44
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 12-26 and 52-66 -- 23.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 192 BPM
FIRST DATE · BARS 12-13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 2, 5, 6, 9, 10 and 15 more.

LOOP · 192 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 192 BPM
BARS 5-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

131 bars across 12 sections: 88 keep time, 21 are fills, 9 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 88-106.

PART C
PART G
PART I
CHORUS
PART C
PART G
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesKGIPC+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is First Date?

192 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is First Date hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 2:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 First Date?

3 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 2, 5, 6, 9, 10 and 15 more.

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