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Bad Girl · HANA

Bad Girl · HANA
EXERCISE 11 OF 24
Fill at bar 36 (a small one)
106 / 118 BARS COVERED
0 / 24 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART D
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bad Girl on drums

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

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
53/100

hi-hat through bars 1-81, silence through bars 82-83, snare through bars 84-85 and hi-hat through bars 86-118.

The beat

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.

    1                2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|--x-------x-----|
Bad Girl -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- A, D -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 38-91 -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 28-64 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 8 minutes.
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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