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What's My Age Again? · blink-182

EXERCISE 15 OF 30
2-bar fill at bar 25 and 4 more
59 / 95 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play What's My Age Again? on drums

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.

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
2:24
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-3, ride through bars 4-12, hi-hat through bars 13-23, snare through bars 24-27, hi-hat through bars 28-43 and snare through bars 44-46, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    18               19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x-------|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-----x---x-|
T1 |----------------|----------x-----|
FT |----------------|--------------x-|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|x-----x-x---x---|
What's My Age Again? -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- H, B -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 10-21 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part R -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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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