Bad Girl · HANA

118 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:30 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-23, 25 and 41-51, and 5 more places -- 47.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAD GIRL · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 24, 36, 40, 80, 88, 98 and 4 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 98 · LANDS ON BAR 99
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 116-118 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

118 bars across 11 sections: 94 keep time, 10 are fills, 2 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-23.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART D
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesADS8S4S6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bad Girl?

135 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 Girl hard to play on drums?

53 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Bad Girl?

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 24, 36, 40, 80, 88, 98 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED
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