Bad Penny · Rory Gallagher

89 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 3:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-8, 11-16 and 19, and 7 more places -- 21.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BAD PENNY · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 5, 9, 17, 21, 25, 29 and 16 more.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

89 bars across 11 sections: 55 keep time, 22 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-16.

PART A
PART D
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesIDYMC+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bad Penny?

95 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 Penny hard to play on drums?

60 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 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 Penny?

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 5, 9, 17, 21, 25, 29 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED
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