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Whats My Age Again AI · blink-182

EXERCISE 1 OF 29
Groove E -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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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
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Whats My Age Again AI on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
2:19
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-11, hi-hat through bars 12-17, snare through bars 18-27, hi-hat through bars 28-37, snare through bars 38-47 and silence through bars 48-50, and 2 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 -- 39% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- E -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 25-38 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 45-67 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED