Bad Habit · The Offspring

218 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 6:59 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
218
LENGTH
6:59
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 57-72, 116-132 and 183-198 -- 26.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAD HABIT · BAR 58
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 29, 30, 31, 32, 82, 83 and 6 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 29-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 82-83 · LANDS ON BAR 84 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 115 · LANDS ON BAR 116 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

218 bars across 17 sections: 139 keep time, 12 are fills, 18 are stops and 32 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 121-137.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART S13
PART H
OUTRO
9 groovesKHIGS1+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bad Habit?

125 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?

51 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

218 bars, about 6:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Bad Habit?

3 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 29, 30, 31, 32, 82, 83 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 218 BARS ANALYSED
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