Bad Apple!!! · RichaadEB, Cristina Vee

168 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 4:52 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
168
LENGTH
4:52
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 5 more places -- 9.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BAD APPLE!!! · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 8, 14, 16, 22, 24, 25 and 46 more.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 138 BPM
BARS 24-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 10 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

168 bars across 22 sections: 70 keep time, 52 are fills, 6 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 114-119.

CHORUS
PART S11
PART T
PART S19
PART J
OUTRO
15 groovesFTJMS19+10Fill 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

168 bars, about 4:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 78 exercises over 28 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!!!?

16 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 8, 14, 16, 22, 24, 25 and 46 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 168 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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