Bad Leroy Brown · Jim Croce

108 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 2:55 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockCountry / Folk120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
2:55
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-60, 73-80 and 89-108 -- 40.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 148 BPM
BAD LEROY BROWN · BAR 49
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

108 bars across 9 sections: 91 keep time and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 87-108.

PART B
PART E
PART H
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
BREAK
OUTRO
6 groovesJHBES8+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bad Leroy Brown?

148 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 Leroy Brown hard to play on drums?

48 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 2:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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