Bad Habits · Thundermother

127 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 3:32 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-28, 30-35 and 55-59, and 7 more places -- 38.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 144 BPM
BAD HABITS · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 37, 61, 69, 71, 73, 74 and 8 more.

LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 71 · LANDS ON BAR 72
LOOP · 144 BPM
BARS 73-77 · LANDS ON BAR 78 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

127 bars across 12 sections: 69 keep time, 14 are fills, 28 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-16.

PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART A
OUTRO
6 groovesECABS11+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bad Habits?

144 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?

46 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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?

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 37, 61, 69, 71, 73, 74 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED
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