Wishing Well · blink-182

164 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:17 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and upBeginner
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 33-35, 41-47 and 49-55, and 6 more places -- 31.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 200 BPM
WISHING WELL · BARS 33-34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 4, 16, 24, 31, 32, 36 and 25 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

164 bars across 16 sections: 107 keep time, 31 are fills and 8 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-15.

PART A
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART A
PART E
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 6
OUTRO
6 groovesHAEKD+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wishing Well?

200 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 Wishing Well hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Wishing Well?

7 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 4, 16, 24, 31, 32, 36 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 164 BARS ANALYSED
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