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Bad Guy · Falling In Reverse

EXERCISE 1 OF 27
Groove F -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bad Guy on drums

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.

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
60
LENGTH
2:35
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-31 and snare through bars 32-48, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x------xx-----|
Bad Guy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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, B -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Bars 17-35 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Bars 47-60 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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