Reckless Abandon · blink-182

187 bars at 248 BPM -- fast, and 3:01 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
248 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
187
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-24, 27-33 and 51-53, and 7 more places -- 29.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 248 BPM
RECKLESS ABANDON · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 25, 26, 34, 49, 50, 54 and 19 more.

LOOP · 248 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 248 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 248 BPM
BARS 49-50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 248 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

187 bars across 22 sections: 82 keep time, 25 are fills, 21 are stops and 39 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 132-145.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART F
PART Q
PART S17
10 groovesBFS1S17Q+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Reckless Abandon?

248 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 Reckless Abandon hard to play on drums?

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

187 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Reckless Abandon?

8 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 25, 26, 34, 49, 50, 54 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 187 BARS ANALYSED
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