Bad Guy · Falling In Reverse

60 bars of 4/4 at a walking 93 BPM, 2:35 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
60
LENGTH
2:35
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-22 and 33-35, and 4 more places -- 29.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 93 BPM
BAD GUY · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 20, 23, 36, 39, 40, 44 and 4 more.

LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24
LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 93 BPM
BARS 39-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

60 bars across 8 sections: 38 keep time, 10 are fills and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-15.

COUNT-IN
PART A
VERSE
CHORUS
VERSE 2
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
5 groovesFBAS1S7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bad Guy?

93 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 Guy hard to play on drums?

48 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

60 bars, about 2:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Guy?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 20, 23, 36, 39, 40, 44 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 60 BARS ANALYSED
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