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Bad Boys · Inner Circle

Bad Boys · Inner Circle
EXERCISE 15 OF 15
Play the whole song with the record
80 / 83 BARS COVERED
0 / 15 PASSED · 83 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
PART S2
VERSE
BREAK
BREAK 2
VERSE 2
PART E
BREAK 3
VERSE 3
BREAK 4
OUTRO
8 groovesCDES2S1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bad Boys on drums

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

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-83.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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, E -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 9-70 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 30-83 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED