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Bad Attitude · Deep Purple

EXERCISE 11 OF 34
2-bar fill at bar 44
75 / 109 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCFNS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bad Attitude on drums

109 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 3:34 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-14 and hi-hat through bars 15-109.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 15-28, 34 and 36, and 15 more places -- 49% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    15               16
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o-o-o-o-o-o-|o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-----x-|------x-x-------|
Bad Attitude -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 33, 44, 45, 63, 64, 81 and 7 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 -- C, H -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part F -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro 2 -- 10 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Bad Attitude?

122 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 Attitude hard to play on drums?

47 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 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 Attitude?

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 33, 44, 45, 63, 64, 81 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED