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Bad Machine · Boston Manor
EXERCISE 6 OF 19
Join Chorus to Part D (bars 17-19)
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0 / 19 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART D
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
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bad Machine on drums

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.

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-34, snare through bars 35-43, silence through bars 44-49, hi-hat through bars 50-61 and snare through bars 62-66.

The beat

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.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Bad Machine -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. Bars 17-43 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 66 BARS ANALYSED