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Time to Break Up · blink-182

EXERCISE 1 OF 38
Groove K -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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PART C
PART F
PART H
CHORUS
PART C
PART F
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesKPCFH+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Time to Break Up on drums

155 bars at 203 BPM -- fast, and 3:03 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
203 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
76/100

snare through bars 1-2, ride through bars 3-10, hi-hat through bars 11-26, ride through bars 27-32, toms through bars 33-34 and ride through bars 35-40, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 27-29, 31-32 and 35-37, and 13 more places -- 26.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    27               28
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x----x--x---xx--|x---xx--x---x---|
Time to Break Up -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 10, 26, 50, 66, 90 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Bars 15-27 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Bars 33-83 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Time to Break Up?

203 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 Time to Break Up hard to play on drums?

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

How long is the drum part?

155 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 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 Time to Break Up?

7 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 10, 26, 50, 66, 90 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 155 BARS ANALYSED