M+M's · blink-182

102 bars at 159 BPM -- fast, and 2:34 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

159 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

102

LENGTH

2:34

DIFFICULTY

77/100

hi-hat through bars 1-28, ride through bars 29-36, hi-hat through bars 37-60, ride through bars 61-68, hi-hat through bars 69-100 and kick and crashes through bars 101-102.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 10-11, and 10 more places -- 35.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x--x-x--xx--x---|

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 8, 21, 23, 36, 40 and 6 more.

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- A -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
5. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
6. Through Part I -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
8. Bars 25-40 -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
9. and 4 more sittings after that.