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Here's Your Letter · blink-182

EXERCISE 1 OF 36
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBDHS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Here's Your Letter on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
176 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
2:48
DIFFICULTY
60/100

snare through bars 3-10, hi-hat through bars 11-28, snare through bars 29-30, hi-hat through bars 31-32, snare through bars 33-42 and hi-hat through bars 43-60, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 29-69 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 25-43 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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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