Sometimes · blink-182

28 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 1:01 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
28
LENGTH
1:01
DIFFICULTY
100/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 7-9 and 11-13, and 4 more places -- 46.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 110 BPM
SOMETIMES · BAR 1
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 28.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 28
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

28 bars across 4 sections: 21 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-27.

PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesACFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sometimes?

110 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Sometimes hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 100 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

28 bars, about 1:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Sometimes?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 28.

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