Story Of A Lonely Guy · blink-182

136 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 3:35 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and upBeginner
TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-35, 38-39 and 42-43, and 11 more places -- 22.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 152 BPM
STORY OF A LONELY GUY · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 8, 28, 32, 36, 40, 44 and 16 more.

LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

136 bars across 6 sections: 104 keep time, 22 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-21.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesAGKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Story Of A Lonely Guy?

152 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 Story Of A Lonely Guy hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Story Of A Lonely Guy?

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 8, 28, 32, 36, 40, 44 and 16 more.

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