Time To Break Up (ver 2) · Blink-182

155 bars at 204 BPM -- fast, and 3:02 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
204 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
3:02
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

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

LOOP · 204 BPM
TIME TO BREAK UP (VER 2) · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 1, 10, 26, 50, 66, 90 and 10 more.

LOOP · 204 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 204 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 204 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 204 BPM
BAR 90 · LANDS ON BAR 91

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

155 bars across 11 sections: 119 keep time, 16 are fills, 4 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 91-113.

PART F
PART H
CHORUS
PART F
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesKOFHD+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Time To Break Up (ver 2)?

204 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 (ver 2) hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

155 bars, about 3:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 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 (ver 2)?

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 1, 10, 26, 50, 66, 90 and 10 more.

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