Bad As I Used To Be · Chris Stapleton

143 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 4:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
4:57
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 68% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-16, 18-46 and 48-59, and 6 more places -- 68.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAD AS I USED TO BE · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 17, 60, 61, 85, 96, 109 and 1 more.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BARS 60-61 · LANDS ON BAR 62 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 85 · LANDS ON BAR 86
LOOP · 115 BPM
BARS 109-110 · LANDS ON BAR 111 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

143 bars across 12 sections: 123 keep time, 7 are fills, 1 is a stop and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-59.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDKIEG+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bad As I Used To Be?

115 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 As I Used To Be hard to play on drums?

46 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 4:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 As I Used To Be?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 17, 60, 61, 85, 96, 109 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED
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