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Bad Omen · Megadeth

EXERCISE 1 OF 64
Groove AM -- Outro
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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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bad Omen on drums

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.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

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

silence through bars 1-18, toms through bars 19-37, snare through bars 38-46, kick and crashes through bars 47-52, toms through bars 53-56 and ride through bars 57-67, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    101
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xx--xx--xx--xx--|
Bad Omen -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- AM -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AN, U -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and Part C -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part B -- 10 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 41-57 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 55-86 -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part AF -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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