bad guy · Billie Eilish

105 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:07 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

PopAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPMShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 35-42, and 2 more places -- 39.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAD GUY · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 105.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 105
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 13 sections: 88 keep time, 1 is a fill and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-23.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
PART A
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART E
OUTRO
8 groovesCAES5S3+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is bad guy?

135 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 guy hard to play on drums?

38 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in bad guy?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 105.

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