Give Me One Good Reason · blink-182

125 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 3:10 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-16, 21-28 and 57-64, and 1 more place -- 22.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 158 BPM
GIVE ME ONE GOOD REASON · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 32, 36, 39, 40, 44, 47 and 21 more.

LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BARS 39-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BARS 87-90 · LANDS ON BAR 91 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

125 bars across 9 sections: 84 keep time, 27 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-31.

PART A
CHORUS
PART G
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART Q
OUTRO
4 groovesDGAQFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Give Me One Good Reason?

158 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 Give Me One Good Reason hard to play on drums?

62 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Give Me One Good Reason?

7 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 32, 36, 39, 40, 44, 47 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED
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