Kings Of The Weekend · blink-182

129 bars at 177 BPM -- fast, and 2:54 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
177 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 28-31, 36-38 and 70-73, and 3 more places -- 16.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 177 BPM
KINGS OF THE WEEKEND · BARS 28-29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 23, 27, 35, 39, 45, 46 and 16 more.

LOOP · 177 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 177 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 177 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 177 BPM
BARS 45-47 · LANDS ON BAR 48 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 12 sections: 78 keep time, 24 are fills and 15 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-22.

PART B
CHORUS
PART L
PART Q
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGLBQE+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Kings Of The Weekend?

177 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 Kings Of The Weekend hard to play on drums?

61 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 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Kings Of The Weekend?

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 23, 27, 35, 39, 45, 46 and 16 more.

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