bad idea right? · Olivia Rodrigo

99 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:03 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-21 and 38, and 2 more places -- 36.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAD IDEA RIGHT? · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars across 9 sections: 89 keep time and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-21.

CHORUS
PART D
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBFNDJ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is bad idea right??

130 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 idea right? 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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