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Bad Liar · Imagine Dragons

EXERCISE 1 OF 14
Groove B -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bad Liar on drums

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

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it.

TEMPO
89 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
39/100

silence through bars 1-12, kick and crashes through bars 13-21, silence through bars 22-28, hi-hat through bars 29-35, silence through bars 36-44 and kick and crashes through bars 45-60, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
BD |x-----xx-xx-----|
Bad Liar -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- B, D -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 30-64 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 91 BARS ANALYSED