Violence · blink-182

202 bars at 238 BPM -- fast, and 3:24 of it without a break -- on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
238 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
202
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
29/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-17, 19-25 and 54-71, and 2 more places -- 52.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 238 BPM
VIOLENCE · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 32 and 33.

LOOP · 238 BPM
BARS 32-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

202 bars across 11 sections: 182 keep time, 2 are fills, 3 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 127-169.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBFAS4S7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Violence?

238 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 Violence hard to play on drums?

29 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

202 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Violence?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 32 and 33.

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