Lemmings · blink-182

123 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:44 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
2:44
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7-16 and 19-24, and 6 more places -- 41.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 180 BPM
LEMMINGS · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 122 and 123.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 122-123 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

123 bars across 10 sections: 108 keep time, 2 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-24.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCFEHS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lemmings?

180 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 Lemmings hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 2:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 8 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Lemmings?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 122 and 123.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED
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