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Bad Habit · The Offspring

EXERCISE 5 OF 34
Groove H -- Part H
97 / 218 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 40 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART F
PART H
PART I
CHORUS
PART G
PART O
PART H
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART S13
PART H
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesKHIGS1+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bad Habit on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
218
LENGTH
6:59
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-18, kick and crashes through bars 19-28, toms through bars 29-32, hi-hat through bars 33-56, ride through bars 57-72 and hi-hat through bars 73-81, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- K, G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 32-50 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 44-60 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 76-93 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 90-173 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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