BAD IS BAD · huey lewis

82 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:39 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 56% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 6-7 and 10-14, and 19 more places -- 56.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAD IS BAD · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 1, 2, 65, 66 and 82.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 82
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

82 bars across 2 sections: 76 keep time and 5 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-62.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesCBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is BAD IS BAD?

90 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 IS BAD hard to play on drums?

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in BAD IS BAD?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 1, 2, 65, 66 and 82.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED
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