Bad Time · Grand Funk Railroad

87 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 2:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Rock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
2:45
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13, 15-21 and 23, and 13 more places -- 44% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 126 BPM
BAD TIME · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 24, 31, 32, 55, 56, 64 and 6 more.

LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 126 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

87 bars across 7 sections: 55 keep time, 12 are fills, 1 is a stop and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-23.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDS1POJFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bad Time?

126 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 Time hard to play on drums?

50 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 2:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Time?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 24, 31, 32, 55, 56, 64 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED
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