BLINK-182 · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in I Really Wish I Hated You

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 34-38, 40 and 58-60, and 5 more places -- 27.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

TEMPO
143 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
50/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 143 BPM
I REALLY WISH I HATED YOU · BARS 34-35

It is played on crash, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 28 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.

The whole song is 50 out of 100, so the beat is not the hard part: what costs you is everything around it, the joins and the fills.

How to get it under your hands

The room opens this beat on its simplest reduction, at 107 BPM, and adds the notes back a rung at a time -- 3 of them. Nothing is a matter of opinion: each rung has a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next one.

  1. Skeleton. Only the notes that land on a beat. The point is to feel where this bar stands.
  2. Kick and snare, whole. The feet and the snare exactly as written, and nothing else. This is the part to know by heart.
  3. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 107, 125 and 143 BPM, and the gate at each one is 8 loops in a row with no wrong note and no wobble in the time.

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Questions

What drum beat does I Really Wish I Hated You use?

A 2-bar phrase on crash, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 143 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 27.3% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 34-38, 40, 58-60 and 62-64, and 4 more places. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 8 times over the song.

Is the beat in I Really Wish I Hated You hard?

28 out of 100 on its own -- a fair first song. The song as a whole is 50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED