Bad Reputation · Bass Drum Of Death

164 bars at 174 BPM -- fast, and 3:46 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
174 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 66% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-42, 50 and 52-58, and 9 more places -- 65.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 174 BPM
BAD REPUTATION · BAR 52
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 21, 27, 59, 91, 115, 117 and 2 more.

LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

164 bars across 12 sections: 112 keep time, 8 are fills, 18 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 128-162.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
8 groovesFGS1DJ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bad Reputation?

174 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 Reputation 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Bad Reputation?

2 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 21, 27, 59, 91, 115, 117 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 164 BARS ANALYSED
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