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Bad Penny · Rory Gallagher

EXERCISE 1 OF 39
Groove D -- Part D
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PART A
PART D
CHORUS
PART M
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesIDYMC+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bad Penny on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
60/100

hi-hat through bars 2-29, ride through bars 30-39, hi-hat through bars 40-49, ride through bars 50-59, hi-hat through bars 60-69 and ride through bars 70-89.

The beat

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.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x----xx-x---x-|
Bad Penny -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- D, I -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 6-30 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 38-70 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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