Bad Apple · Richaadeb

28 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 0:49 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

ProgressiveMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
28
LENGTH
0:49
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-15 and 17-23 -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BAD APPLE · BARS 9-10
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 8, 25, 26, 27 and 28.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 138 BPM
BARS 25-28 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

28 bars across 2 sections: 22 keep time and 5 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-24.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesEAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bad Apple?

138 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

28 bars, about 0:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 8, 25, 26, 27 and 28.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 28 BARS ANALYSED
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