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Up All Night · blink-182

EXERCISE 27 OF 54
Run J1 · Part J (bars 22-38)
89 / 128 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 17 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
PART A
PART J
PART N
CHORUS
PART J
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesTJANS11+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Up All Night on drums

128 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:11 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
71/100

hi-hat through bars 1-120 and snare through bars 121-128.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 23-25, 27-29 and 31-33, and 5 more places -- 19% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    23               24
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxxxxoxxxxx|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x---x-----x-----|x---x-----x-----|
Up All Night -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 26, 34 and 27 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- J -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part A -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 19-29 -- 5 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part J and Part N -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Up All Night?

160 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 Up All Night hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 12 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 Up All Night?

15 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 26, 34 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED