What's My Age Again? · blink-182

95 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 2:24 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
2:24
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18-20, 22-24 and 38-40, and 7 more places -- 32.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 158 BPM
WHAT'S MY AGE AGAIN? · BARS 18-19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 17, 21, 25, 26, 37, 41 and 13 more.

LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 158 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BARS 61-62 · LANDS ON BAR 63 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

95 bars across 9 sections: 56 keep time, 19 are fills, 7 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-12.

PART B
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesHEBSR+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is What's My Age Again??

158 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 What's My Age Again? hard to play on drums?

55 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 2:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 What's My Age Again??

4 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 17, 21, 25, 26, 37, 41 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 95 BARS ANALYSED
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