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.

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

TEMPO

130 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

225

LENGTH

6:56

DIFFICULTY

48/100

hi-hat through bars 1-88, snare through bars 89-94, toms through bars 95-96 and hi-hat through bars 97-225.

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.

    41               42
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-----x---x-x---|--x-x-x---x---x-|

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

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- O, L -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
3. Through Part A -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
5. Bars 67-81 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
6. Through Part X and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
7. Bars 88-225 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.