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Toast And Bananas · blink-182

EXERCISE 1 OF 38
Groove H -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
6 groovesHS1KBE+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Toast And Bananas on drums

122 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:45 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-17, toms through bars 18-23, snare through bars 24-33, ride through bars 34-57, toms through bars 58-65 and ride through bars 66-122.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-36, 38-40 and 42-44, and 7 more places -- 45.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    35
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x----x--x----x--|
Toast And Bananas -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 24, 25, 29, 33, 37, 45 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- H -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K, J -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 18-34 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 56-90 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Toast And Bananas?

130 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 Toast And Bananas hard to play on drums?

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Toast And Bananas?

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 24, 25, 29, 33, 37, 45 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED