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Story Of A Lonely Guy · blink-182

EXERCISE 1 OF 37
Groove K -- Outro 2
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CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesAGKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Story Of A Lonely Guy on drums

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.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
65/100

hi-hat through bars 1-32, ride through bars 33-48, hi-hat through bars 49-80, ride through bars 81-96, hi-hat through bars 97-98 and snare through bars 99-100, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    34
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Story Of A Lonely Guy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- K -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A, D (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part G -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED