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Bad Habits · Ed Sheeran

EXERCISE 5 OF 13
Run C1 · Chorus (bars 29-59)
77 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 13 PASSED · 31 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bad Habits on drums

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

35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
35/100

silence through bars 1-12, snare through bars 13-18, silence through bars 19-20, kick and crashes through bars 21-28, hi-hat through bars 29-59 and silence through bars 60-61, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Bars 29-86 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED