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Bad Girls · Jamiroquai

EXERCISE 9 OF 77
Join Verse to Chorus 2 (bars 23-25)
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0 / 77 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE VERSE, CHORUS 2
VERSE
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 5
PART I
PART G
PART G
16 groovesCGEIB+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 30
LINK · 8
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bad Girls on drums

264 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 8:48 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
264
LENGTH
8:48
DIFFICULTY
41/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-9, snare through bars 10-14, hi-hat through bars 15-24, snare through bars 25-29 and hi-hat through bars 30-34, and 23 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-14, 25-29 and 35-44, and 6 more places -- 20.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
HF |--x---x---x---x-|
Bad Girls -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 52, 53, 84, 85, 241, 243 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 72 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 -- C, G -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Verse -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 23-38 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 46-80 -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 46-252 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 50-65 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 5 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Bad Girls?

120 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 Girls hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 10 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

264 bars, about 8:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 72 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Bad Girls?

4 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 52, 53, 84, 85, 241, 243 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 264 BARS ANALYSED