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Lemmings · blink-182

EXERCISE 2 OF 23
Groove F -- Part F
51 / 123 BARS COVERED
0 / 23 PASSED · 33 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lemmings on drums

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

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
2:44
DIFFICULTY
80/100

hi-hat through bars 3-24, snare through bars 25-26, ride through bars 27-34, hi-hat through bars 35-48, snare through bars 49-50 and hi-hat through bars 51-56, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x----x--x----x--|
Lemmings -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- C -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Bars 2-104 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 63-91 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 91-123 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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