Bad Machine · Boston Manor

66 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 3:06 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-17, 25 and 27-33, and 2 more places -- 48% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BAD MACHINE · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 18, 22, 34, 38, 42, 58 and 1 more.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

66 bars across 8 sections: 33 keep time, 9 are fills, 3 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-17.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART S6
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBDS1S6JFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bad Machine?

85 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 Machine hard to play on drums?

45 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

66 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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.

How many fills are in Bad Machine?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 18, 22, 34, 38, 42, 58 and 1 more.

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