Bad State of Mind · Treaty Oak Revival

90 bars of 4/4 at a walking 87 BPM, 4:07 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-11, 13 and 15, and 11 more places -- 18.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 87 BPM
BAD STATE OF MIND · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 24, 26 and 32 more.

LOOP · 87 BPM
BARS 5-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 7 sections: 36 keep time, 38 are fills, 6 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-23.

PART A
CHORUS
PART S
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
6 groovesFS7SAS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bad State of Mind?

87 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 State of Mind hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 4:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 State of Mind?

8 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 24, 26 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED
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