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

EXERCISE 29 OF 46
Groove P -- Part P
79 / 136 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART P, OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 4
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bad Habits (feat. Bring Me The Horizon) on drums

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

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

TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-20, kick and crashes through bars 21-27, toms through bars 28-37, snare through bars 38-45 and silence through bars 46-50, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    38
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |X-----X---------|
Bad Habits (feat. Bring Me The Horizon) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- H, C, E -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through Part C and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and the Break 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part J -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 50-96 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 104-120 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 116-128 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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