Wasting Time · blink-182

74 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
2:28
DIFFICULTY
91/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 16-19, 22 and 25-26, and 3 more places -- 28.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
WASTING TIME · BARS 16-17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 6 times: bars 14, 15, 37, 38, 64 and 65.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 14-15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

74 bars across 10 sections: 55 keep time, 6 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 50-63.

CHORUS
PART D
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART G
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBGDIS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wasting Time?

120 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 Wasting Time hard to play on drums?

91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 2:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 10 sittings, about 22 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 Wasting Time?

1 fill to learn, played 6 times: bars 14, 15, 37, 38, 64 and 65.

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