A History Of Bad Men · Melvins

225 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 6:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
225
LENGTH
6:56
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 41-46, 49-55 and 57-63, and 29 more places -- 43% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 130 BPM
A HISTORY OF BAD MEN · BARS 41-42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 20, 22, 23, 24, 28, 34 and 11 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 22-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 96 · LANDS ON BAR 97
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

225 bars across 9 sections: 185 keep time, 18 are fills, 10 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 136-220.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
6 groovesOAXVS3+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A History Of Bad Men?

130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is A History Of Bad Men hard to play on drums?

48 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

225 bars, about 6:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 A History Of Bad Men?

4 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 20, 22, 23, 24, 28, 34 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 225 BARS ANALYSED
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