bad idea! · Girl In Red

142 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 3:30 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 61% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-23, 25-31 and 34-35, and 9 more places -- 61.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 162 BPM
BAD IDEA! · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 32, 47 and 48.

LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 162 BPM
BARS 47-48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

142 bars across 11 sections: 121 keep time, 3 are fills and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-31.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART I
BREAK 2
OUTRO
8 groovesBAIS10K+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is bad idea!?

162 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is bad idea! hard to play on drums?

49 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in bad idea!?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 32, 47 and 48.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED
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