Here's Your Letter · blink-182

123 bars at 176 BPM -- fast, and 2:48 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
176 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
2:48
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-9, 35-41 and 77-78, and 4 more places -- 37.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 176 BPM
HERE'S YOUR LETTER · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 10, 27, 28, 31, 32, 42 and 16 more.

LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 176 BPM
BARS 27-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 176 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 176 BPM
BARS 59-60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

123 bars across 8 sections: 88 keep time, 23 are fills, 4 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 81-98.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBDHS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Here's Your Letter?

176 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 Here's Your Letter hard to play on drums?

60 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 2:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Here's Your Letter?

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 10, 27, 28, 31, 32, 42 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED
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