Bad · U2

205 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 8:02 of playing, on crash, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
205
LENGTH
8:02
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 32-47, 49-51 and 53-64, and 6 more places -- 32% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 102 BPM
BAD · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 106, 118, 126, 142, 150, 187 and 2 more.

LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 106 · LANDS ON BAR 107 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 118 · LANDS ON BAR 119
LOOP · 102 BPM
BARS 187-188 · LANDS ON BAR 189 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

205 bars across 11 sections: 162 keep time, 8 are fills, 1 is a stop and 24 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-81.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART J
PART B
OUTRO
5 groovesCJBS1HFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bad?

102 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 hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

205 bars, about 8:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Bad?

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 106, 118, 126, 142, 150, 187 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 205 BARS ANALYSED
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