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Bad Girlfriend · Theory Of A Deadman

EXERCISE 17 OF 49
Run J1 · Part J (bars 15-30)
89 / 113 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bad Girlfriend on drums

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.

56 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
113
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
56/100

snare through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-12, snare through bars 13-15, hi-hat through bars 16-40 and snare through bars 41-44, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- F -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 5 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-24 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 39-66 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part H -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 66-79 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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