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Bad apple · Basement

EXERCISE 29 OF 29
Play the whole song with the record
83 / 93 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 93 BARS LIT
PART A
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesHDAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bad apple on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
2:39
DIFFICULTY
57/100

toms through bars 1-24, ride through bars 25-30, snare through bars 31-34, ride through bars 35-56, snare through bars 57-60 and ride through bars 61-93.

The beat

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.

    35               36
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
RD |----x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|--x-----x-x---x-|
Bad apple -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- H, A -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 50-63 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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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