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Bad Moons · American Football

EXERCISE 7 OF 71
Groove D
111 / 260 BARS COVERED
0 / 71 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART E
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
GROOVE · 26
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bad Moons on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
260
LENGTH
7:39
DIFFICULTY
61/100

kick and crashes through bars 2-10, hi-hat through bars 11-12, snare through bars 13-42, kick and crashes through bars 43-46, hi-hat through bars 47-78 and ride through bars 79-120, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 61 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 -- A, AJ -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part E -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  6. Through Part AJ -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  7. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part E and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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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