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Pathetic · blink-182

EXERCISE 14 OF 35
Groove G -- Outro 2
99 / 125 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART C
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART I
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesACEIGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pathetic on drums

125 bars at 202 BPM -- fast, and 2:29 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
202 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
2:29
DIFFICULTY
85/100

hi-hat through bars 1-14, ride through bars 15-46, hi-hat through bars 47-60, ride through bars 61-76, toms through bars 77-88 and ride through bars 89-92, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-14 and 47-53, and 3 more places -- 32% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 8, 32, 40, 54, 88, 100 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through Part C and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Pathetic?

202 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 Pathetic hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 2:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 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 Pathetic?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 8, 32, 40, 54, 88, 100 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED