Bad Animals · Heart

136 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 4:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

RockPop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
4:51
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-20, 25-28 and 33-36, and 8 more places -- 43.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BAD ANIMALS · BARS 13-14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 86, 94, 102, 110, 119, 120 and 2 more.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 86 · LANDS ON BAR 87 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 102 · LANDS ON BAR 103
LOOP · 112 BPM
BARS 119-120 · LANDS ON BAR 121 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 136
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

136 bars across 16 sections: 93 keep time, 8 are fills, 4 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-27.

PART B
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
CHORUS 6
OUTRO
6 groovesDIBMS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bad Animals?

112 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 Bad Animals hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 4:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Bad Animals?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 86, 94, 102, 110, 119, 120 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED
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