Whats My Age Again AI · blink-182

90 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 2:19 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkPop150 BPM and up
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
2:19
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% 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 -- 39% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 155 BPM
WHATS MY AGE AGAIN AI · BARS 18-19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 17, 21, 25, 26, 36, 37 and 14 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 36-37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 8 sections: 48 keep time, 20 are fills, 3 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 51-60.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEBMS1S6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Whats My Age Again AI?

155 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 Whats My Age Again AI hard to play on drums?

51 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 2:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, 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 Whats My Age Again AI?

7 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 17, 21, 25, 26, 36, 37 and 14 more.

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