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The Party Song · blink-182

EXERCISE 11 OF 25
Groove G
89 / 128 BARS COVERED
0 / 25 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT
PART B
CHORUS
PART J
PART L
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCLJBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Party Song on drums

128 bars at 236 BPM -- fast, and 2:10 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
236 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
2:10
DIFFICULTY
74/100

hi-hat through bars 2-37, ride through bars 38-47, toms through bars 48-53, hi-hat through bars 54-87, ride through bars 88-97 and toms through bars 98-103, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 54-60, 63-69 and 104-110, and 2 more places -- 27.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    63
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-x-----x---|
BD |x---------x-----|
The Party Song -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 27 and 77.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- L -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The Party Song?

236 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 The Party Song hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 2:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 The Party Song?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 27 and 77.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED