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Bad Habits · Thundermother

EXERCISE 1 OF 31
Groove E -- Chorus
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PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART A
OUTRO
6 groovesECABS11+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bad Habits on drums

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

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

TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
46/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-37, kick and crashes through bars 38-42, hi-hat through bars 43-67, snare through bars 68-85 and kick and crashes through bars 86-93, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
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

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- E, A -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part C -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Bars 13-32 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 36-62 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 53-72 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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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