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Josie · blink-182

EXERCISE 3 OF 35
Groove L -- Part L
68 / 167 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 32 BARS LIT
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART L
CHORUS 3
PART L
PART L
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesALBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Josie on drums

167 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
167
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
82/100

hi-hat through bars 1-22, snare through bars 23-24, hi-hat through bars 25-58, ride through bars 59-74, hi-hat through bars 75-100 and ride through bars 101-116, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-8, 21 and 25-27, and 15 more places -- 40.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x----x--x----x--|
Josie -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 22, 23, 24, 28, 32, 36 and 26 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and the Chorus 3 -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Josie?

200 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 Josie hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

167 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Josie?

7 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 22, 23, 24, 28, 32, 36 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 167 BARS ANALYSED