Bad Habits (feat. Bring Me The Horizon) · Ed Sheeran

136 bars of 4/4 at 131 BPM, about 4:09 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

PopMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 38-40, 42-44 and 80-82, and 5 more places -- 22.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 131 BPM
BAD HABITS (FEAT. BRING ME THE HORIZON) · BAR 38
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 28, 41, 58, 59, 60, 83 and 9 more.

LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 131 BPM
BARS 58-60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 87 · LANDS ON BAR 88

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

136 bars across 18 sections: 62 keep time, 16 are fills, 18 are stops and 32 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 50-57.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART C
PART E
CHORUS
PART J
PART C
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART S13
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesHCEJS1+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bad Habits (feat. Bring Me The Horizon)?

131 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 (feat. Bring Me The Horizon) hard to play on drums?

47 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 4:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Bad Habits (feat. Bring Me The Horizon)?

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 28, 41, 58, 59, 60, 83 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED
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