Bad Moons · American Football

260 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 7:39 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieProgressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
260
LENGTH
7:39
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-45, 96-98 and 120-139, and 2 more places -- 30.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 136 BPM
BAD MOONS · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 46, 78, 175, 178, 179, 195 and 10 more.

LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 175 · LANDS ON BAR 176
LOOP · 136 BPM
BARS 178-179 · LANDS ON BAR 180 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 195 · LANDS ON BAR 196

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

260 bars across 16 sections: 199 keep time, 16 are fills, 7 are stops and 22 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-45.

CHORUS
PART E
PART N
PART S5
PART Q
PART AC
OUTRO 2
13 groovesAAJQNE+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bad Moons?

136 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 Moons hard to play on drums?

61 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 4 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

260 bars, about 7:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 22 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Bad Moons?

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 46, 78, 175, 178, 179, 195 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 260 BARS ANALYSED
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