Bad Girlfriend · Theory Of A Deadman

113 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:21 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13 and 15, and 18 more places -- 42% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAD GIRLFRIEND · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12 and 22 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 4-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 12 sections: 72 keep time, 28 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-30.

PART A
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART C
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
7 groovesFJACH+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bad Girlfriend?

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 Girlfriend hard to play on drums?

56 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Bad Girlfriend?

11 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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