Bad Dream Baby · Hippo Campus

123 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:05 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 51% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-11, 13-15 and 17-19, and 19 more places -- 50.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAD DREAM BABY · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

123 bars across 12 sections: 103 keep time and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-48.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
BREAK
CHORUS 3
PART G
10 groovesCS5GAI+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bad Dream Baby?

160 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 Dream Baby hard to play on drums?

48 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?

123 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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.

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