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Bad Seed · Metallica

EXERCISE 11 OF 57
Run I1 · Part I (bars 1-15)
52 / 121 BARS COVERED
0 / 57 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
PART I
CHORUS
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART U
PART AB
PART AD
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesJPABUI+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bad Seed on drums

121 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 3:49 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
51/100

snare through bars 1-10, toms through bars 11-12, hi-hat through bars 13-64, snare through bars 65-72, toms through bars 73-74 and hi-hat through bars 75-90, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16, 18 and 21-27, and 4 more places -- 15.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    16
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-----x-|
Bad Seed -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 31 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- J, P -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part I -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  4. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Bars 36-107 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Bad Seed?

127 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 Seed 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Seed?

12 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED