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Life's So Boring · blink-182

EXERCISE 1 OF 20
Groove F -- Chorus
0 / 109 BARS COVERED
0 / 20 PASSED · 27 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
PART S1
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO
BREAK
4 groovesFS8DS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Life's So Boring on drums

109 bars of 4/4 at 153 BPM, about 3:18 of playing, on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
153 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
44/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, silence through bars 2-9, snare through bars 10-50, toms through bars 51-59, snare through bars 60-76 and toms through bars 77-83, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-24, 26-33 and 42-44, and 3 more places -- 36% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xxx-x---xxx-x---|
Life's So Boring -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- F, D -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Break -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Life's So Boring?

153 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Life's So Boring hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Life's So Boring?

2 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED