Bad Liar · Imagine Dragons

91 bars of 4/4 at a walking 89 BPM, 4:05 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Jazz / BluesElectronicUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
89 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-19, 45-51 and 53-59 -- 38.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 89 BPM
BAD LIAR · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 84.

LOOP · 89 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

91 bars across 9 sections: 51 keep time, 1 is a fill and 37 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 45-59.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
BREAK
VERSE
BREAK 2
CHORUS 2
VERSE 2
BREAK 3
VERSE 3
6 groovesDBS1S5S8+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bad Liar?

89 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 Liar hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it. The beat itself is 5 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 4:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Bad Liar?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 84.

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