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bad idea! · Girl In Red
EXERCISE 1 OF 29
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART I
BREAK 2
OUTRO
8 groovesBAIS10K+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play bad idea! on drums

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

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

TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
49/100

snare through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-72, snare through bars 73-78, silence through bars 79-80, hi-hat through bars 81-108 and kick and crashes through bars 109-112, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-x-----x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
bad idea! -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 47-97 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 93-105 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 105-117 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
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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