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Bad Apple · Touhou

Bad Apple · Touhou
EXERCISE 11 OF 31
Groove A -- Part A (a two-bar phrase)
87 / 121 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bad Apple on drums

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.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
76/100

hi-hat through bars 1-49, kick and crashes through bars 50-56, ride through bars 57-64, hi-hat through bars 65-104, ride through bars 105-113 and silence through bars 114-121.

The beat

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.

    10
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|
T2 |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----x-----|
BD |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

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- E -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part A -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 1-44 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 66-113 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED