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BAD IS BAD · huey lewis

BAD IS BAD · huey lewis
EXERCISE 1 OF 12
Groove C -- Outro
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0 / 12 PASSED · 46 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO, OUTRO 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesCBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play BAD IS BAD on drums

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

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
37/100

snare through bars 1-2 and hi-hat through bars 3-82.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 9 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 -- C, B -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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