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.

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

TEMPO

125 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

94

LENGTH

3:06

DIFFICULTY

68/100

hi-hat through bars 1-40, ride through bars 41-64, hi-hat through bars 65-72, ride through bars 73-91 and silence through bars 92-94.

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.

    73               74
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------x-----|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x---------|
SD |----x---x---x---|x---x---xx--x-xx|
BD |x--x--x-x--x--x-|x--x--x-x-x-x---|

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

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- T -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- A, C -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
4. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
5. Bars 13-33 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
6. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part U -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
8. Bars 33-59 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
9. and 3 more sittings after that.