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Going Away To College · blink-182

EXERCISE 1 OF 44
Groove O -- Part O
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0 / 44 PASSED · 24 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O, OUTRO, OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART O
CHORUS 3
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFOS1XC+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Going Away To College on drums

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.

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-16, ride through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-40, ride through bars 41-48, hi-hat through bars 49-64 and ride through bars 65-88, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    66
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-x-----x---|
BD |x-x-------x-----|
Going Away To College -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- O, F -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 22-63 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and the Chorus 3 -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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