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Wasting Time · blink-182

EXERCISE 2 OF 24
Groove B -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wasting Time on drums

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

91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
2:28
DIFFICULTY
91/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-15, hi-hat through bars 16-27, ride through bars 28-38, hi-hat through bars 39-50 and ride through bars 51-65, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    16               17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|x-------x-------|
HH |--oooooooooooooo|--oooooo--oooo--|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|--xx--x---xx--x-|
BD |x---xx-x-x--xx-x|x---xx-xx---xx-x|
Wasting Time -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- G -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 37-49 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED