Going Away To College · blink-182

156 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 2:58 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 upBeginner
TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 66-67, 70-71 and 74-75, and 9 more places -- 17.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 210 BPM
GOING AWAY TO COLLEGE · BAR 66
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 24, 34, 48, 58, 62, 64 and 13 more.

LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

156 bars across 11 sections: 99 keep time, 19 are fills, 11 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-33.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART O
CHORUS 3
PART O
OUTRO
6 groovesFOS1XC+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Going Away To College?

210 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 Going Away To College hard to play on drums?

57 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 2:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 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 Going Away To College?

7 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 24, 34, 48, 58, 62, 64 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED
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