Bad Habit · Steve Lacy

81 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 3:49 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

Under 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 59% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-10, 12-24 and 27-34, and 1 more place -- 59.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BAD HABIT · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 81.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 81
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

81 bars across 6 sections: 68 keep time, 1 is a fill and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-46.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
OUTRO
5 groovesBDS5S1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bad Habit?

85 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 Habit hard to play on drums?

45 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

How many fills are in Bad Habit?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 81.

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