Bad Exchanges · Showing Teeth

74 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 2:39 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
2:39
DIFFICULTY
92/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 8, 12 and 59-60, and 1 more place -- 9.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAD EXCHANGES · BARS 59-60
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 6, 10, 19, 20, 21, 22 and 42 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

74 bars across 5 sections: 19 keep time, 48 are fills, 2 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-18.

PART D
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesHFDAJS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bad Exchanges?

110 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Exchanges hard to play on drums?

92 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 2:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Bad Exchanges?

7 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 6, 10, 19, 20, 21, 22 and 42 more.

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