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bad guy · Billie Eilish

EXERCISE 10 OF 17
Groove E -- Part E (a two-bar phrase)
74 / 105 BARS COVERED
0 / 17 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play bad guy on drums

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

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
38/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-24, snare through bars 25-32, silence through bars 33-34, snare through bars 35-42, silence through bars 43-50 and kick and crashes through bars 51-58, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    25
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
SD |---x-----x-----x-----x--|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
bad guy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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, A -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 41-85 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part E -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED