Bad Apple · Touhou

121 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 3:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12 and 14, and 11 more places -- 40.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BAD APPLE · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 36, 40 and 10 more.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 8 sections: 80 keep time, 16 are fills, 10 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-7.

PART A
CHORUS
PART J
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEJLAS8Fill 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?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. 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?

5 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 36, 40 and 10 more.

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