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Bad Blood · Asking Alexandria

EXERCISE 13 OF 50
Run J1 · Part J (bars 26-34)
52 / 149 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
CHORUS
PART J
PART M
PART O
PART R
PART M
PART O
BREAK 3
OUTRO
13 groovesCS14OMW+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 4
JOIN · 12
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bad Blood on drums

149 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:19 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
57/100

snare through bars 1-19, silence through bars 20-25, toms through bars 26-34, silence through bars 35-36, snare through bars 37-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-71, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45-51, 93-99 and 145-147 -- 15% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    45
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Bad Blood -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 2, 44, 56, 66, 67 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- O -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part S2 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 26-57 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part R -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part R -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 69-141 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Bad Blood?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Bad Blood hard to play on drums?

57 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 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 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 Blood?

8 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 2, 44, 56, 66, 67 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED