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Bad Religion · Godsmack

EXERCISE 14 OF 42
Groove J
69 / 124 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCULS6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bad Religion on drums

124 bars at 157 BPM -- fast, and 3:10 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
157 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
51/100

toms through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-26, ride through bars 27-32, toms through bars 33-34, hi-hat through bars 35-54 and ride through bars 55-68, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 3-4, 7-8 and 11-12, and 12 more places -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    3                4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|--x---x-x-------|
Bad Religion -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 18, 26, 33 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part L and the Chorus 2 -- 9 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 55-73 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Bad Religion?

157 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Bad Religion hard to play on drums?

51 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Bad Religion?

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 18, 26, 33 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED