Attitude · Bad Brains

54 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 1:19 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

PunkMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
54
LENGTH
1:19
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-8, 13-16 and 35-36, and 1 more place -- 27.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 165 BPM
ATTITUDE · BAR 1
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 52 and 53.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 52-53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

54 bars across 9 sections: 42 keep time, 2 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-35.

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

Questions

What BPM is Attitude?

165 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 Attitude hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

54 bars, about 1:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Attitude?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 52 and 53.

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