Natives · Blink-182

133 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-18, 21-22 and 25-26, and 21 more places -- 25.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
NATIVES · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 8, 16, 19, 20, 23, 24 and 34 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 27-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

133 bars across 12 sections: 79 keep time, 40 are fills, 2 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-7.

PART A
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS 3
PART K
CHORUS 4
PART Q
PART U
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDAKQUFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Natives?

140 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 Natives hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 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 Natives?

14 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 8, 16, 19, 20, 23, 24 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED
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