First Date · Blink 182

131 bars at 188 BPM -- fast, and 2:47 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
188 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-37, 39-41 and 49, and 6 more places -- 19.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 188 BPM
FIRST DATE · BAR 35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 2, 5, 6, 9, 10 and 13 more.

LOOP · 188 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 188 BPM
BARS 5-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 188 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 188 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

131 bars across 13 sections: 86 keep time, 19 are fills and 10 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-25.

PART C
PART K
PART M
CHORUS
PART C
PART K
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART R
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesOCMKS+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is First Date?

188 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?

58 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 2:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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?

4 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 2, 5, 6, 9, 10 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED
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