Bad Habits · Ed Sheeran

117 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 3:43 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopRock120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
35/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 65% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-44, 46-59 and 70-85, and 1 more place -- 65.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 126 BPM
BAD HABITS · BAR 30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 14 sections: 93 keep time and 22 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 29-59.

COUNT-IN
PART A
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO
10 groovesCBS1AD+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bad Habits?

126 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 Habits hard to play on drums?

35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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