Times Change · Blink-182

49 bars at 163 BPM -- fast, and 1:12 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
163 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
49
LENGTH
1:12
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 25-32 and 49 -- 32.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 163 BPM
TIMES CHANGE · BAR 10
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 40.

LOOP · 163 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

49 bars across 6 sections: 33 keep time, 1 is a fill and 12 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-7.

PART A
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDCAEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Times Change?

163 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 Times Change hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

49 bars, about 1:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Times Change?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 40.

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