Bad News · Whitey Morgan

115 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 5:08 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
5:08
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 13-15 and 17, and 28 more places -- 43.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 88 BPM
BAD NEWS · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 38, 65, 68, 69, 83, 84 and 2 more.

LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66
LOOP · 88 BPM
BARS 68-69 · LANDS ON BAR 70 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

115 bars across 5 sections: 98 keep time, 8 are fills and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-37.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBDES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bad News?

88 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 News hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 5:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 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 News?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 38, 65, 68, 69, 83, 84 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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