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Kaleidoscope · blink-182

EXERCISE 28 OF 62
2-bar fill at bar 50
115 / 176 BARS COVERED
0 / 62 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S6
PART B
PART D
PART B
PART S6
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART X
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesLAFBDX+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 7
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Kaleidoscope on drums

176 bars at 183 BPM -- fast, and 3:51 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
183 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
56/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-15, ride through bars 16-24, kick and crashes through bars 25-27, hi-hat through bars 28-47, silence through bars 48-50 and hi-hat through bars 51-66, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 146-160, 162 and 164, and 2 more places -- 15.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    146              147
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |r-----r-x-----r-|--r-------------|
BD |----x-----------|x-------------x-|
HF |----------------|------x---------|
Kaleidoscope -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 18, 20, 22, 24, 36, 37 and 30 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- AF, L -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Bars 22-42 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Bars 45-53 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part S6 and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 57-70 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Kaleidoscope?

183 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 Kaleidoscope hard to play on drums?

56 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 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

176 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 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 Kaleidoscope?

11 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 18, 20, 22, 24, 36, 37 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 176 BARS ANALYSED