Bad Reputation · Thin Lizzy

94 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 41, 45 and 49, and 5 more places -- 20.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAD REPUTATION · BARS 73-74
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 8, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16 and 31 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

94 bars across 9 sections: 47 keep time, 37 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-7.

PART A
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART U
CHORUS 3
PART A
OUTRO
6 groovesCTAHU+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bad Reputation?

125 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?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 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 Reputation?

13 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 8, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16 and 31 more.

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