Bad apple · Basement

93 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 2:39 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
2:39
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 35-41, 43-49 and 61-62, and 3 more places -- 23.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAD APPLE · BARS 35-36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 42, 50, 64 and 6 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

93 bars across 6 sections: 59 keep time, 12 are fills and 15 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-41.

PART A
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesHDAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bad apple?

140 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 apple hard to play on drums?

57 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 2:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Bad apple?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 42, 50, 64 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED
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