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Bad Reputation · Joan Jett And The Blackhearts

EXERCISE 4 OF 10
Join Intro to Part C (bars 3-5)
68 / 69 BARS COVERED
0 / 10 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE INTRO, PART C
INTRO
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bad Reputation on drums

69 bars of 4/4 at a walking 103 BPM, 2:41 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
2:41
DIFFICULTY
67/100

snare through bar 1 and hi-hat through bars 2-69.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 9-10 and 13-14, and 8 more places -- 58% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 9 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 -- B, C -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. Bars 3-69 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Bad Reputation?

103 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 Reputation hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

69 bars, about 2:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 69 BARS ANALYSED