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Reckless Abandon · blink-182

EXERCISE 1 OF 43
Groove B -- Chorus
0 / 187 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 44 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART S8
CHORUS 3
PART F
CHORUS 4
PART Q
PART S17
CHORUS 5
10 groovesBFS1S17Q+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Reckless Abandon on drums

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.

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
248 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
187
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-18, ride through bars 19-34, hi-hat through bars 35-50, ride through bars 51-58, snare through bars 59-62 and ride through bars 63-71, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    20
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x-----|
Reckless Abandon -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 63-71 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 69-146 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 145-183 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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