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Bad Reputation · Joan Jett

EXERCISE 15 OF 20
Groove H
134 / 136 BARS COVERED
0 / 20 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesACFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bad Reputation on drums

136 bars at 205 BPM -- fast, and 2:39 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
205 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
2:39
DIFFICULTY
65/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-10, hi-hat through bars 11-12, toms through bars 13-14, hi-hat through bars 15-20 and toms through bars 21-22, and 23 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 11 and 15, and 17 more places -- 60.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----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

4 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 16, 57, 58, 64, 65, 66 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- A -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 64-89 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Bad Reputation?

205 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?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 2:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 6 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Reputation?

4 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 16, 57, 58, 64, 65, 66 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED