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Go · blink-182

EXERCISE 1 OF 40
Groove A -- Part A
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PART A
PART C
CHORUS
PART A
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEACIB+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Go on drums

79 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 1:45 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
1:45
DIFFICULTY
72/100

ride through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, ride through bars 17-28, hi-hat through bars 29-36, ride through bars 37-48 and snare through bars 49-57, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7 and 21-27 -- 17.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |--x---x---x---x-|
Go -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 16, 18, 20, 36, 38, 40 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- A, C -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 16-21 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 15-36 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  6. Bars 37-71 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 42-61 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Go?

180 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 Go hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 1:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 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 Go?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 16, 18, 20, 36, 38, 40 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED