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Bad State of Mind · Treaty Oak Revival

EXERCISE 1 OF 33
Groove F -- Chorus
0 / 90 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS
PART S
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
6 groovesFS7SAS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bad State of Mind on drums

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.

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

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

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-7, toms through bars 8-9, hi-hat through bars 10-48, ride through bars 49-50 and hi-hat through bars 51-64, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    11
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---x-----------|
Bad State of Mind -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- F, S -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part S -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part S and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and the Break -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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