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Wishing Well · blink-182

EXERCISE 27 OF 45
Join Chorus 2 to Part A (bars 55-57)
147 / 164 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART A
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wishing Well on drums

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.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
68/100

ride through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-30, snare through bars 31-32, hi-hat through bars 33-56, ride through bars 57-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-78, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    33               34
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o-o-o-o-o-o-|o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----|--x-----x-x---x-|
Wishing Well -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E, A -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Bars 29-38 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 35-48 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 53-107 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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