Bad Omen · Megadeth

150 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 100-102, 104-106 and 108-110, and 5 more places -- 15.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAD OMEN · BAR 101
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 20, 24, 28, 30, 32, 34 and 54 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

150 bars across 10 sections: 45 keep time, 60 are fills, 19 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 116-128.

COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART C
PART A
CHORUS
PART AH
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesUAMAHCS1+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bad Omen?

135 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 Omen hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

150 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 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 Omen?

17 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 20, 24, 28, 30, 32, 34 and 54 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 150 BARS ANALYSED
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