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Bad As I Used To Be · Chris Stapleton

EXERCISE 26 OF 29
Join Part K to Outro (bars 124-126)
140 / 143 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, OUTRO
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDKIEG+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bad As I Used To Be on drums

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.

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
4:57
DIFFICULTY
46/100

hi-hat through bars 3-59, snare through bars 60-61, hi-hat through bars 62-65, kick and crashes through bars 66-69, hi-hat through bars 70-85 and ride through bars 86-89, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Bad As I Used To Be -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 3-66 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 66-87 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 84-117 -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Bars 118-137 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
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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