Bad Boys · Inner Circle

83 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 3:46 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Hip Hop / ReggaeUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-9, 19-33 and 40, and 5 more places -- 42.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 88 BPM
BAD BOYS · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

83 bars across 11 sections: 72 keep time and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 63-83.

VERSE
VERSE 2
PART E
VERSE 3
OUTRO
8 groovesCDES2S1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bad Boys?

88 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 Boys hard to play on drums?

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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