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Bad · U2

Bad · U2
EXERCISE 21 OF 32
Run B3 · Part B (bars 157-180)
178 / 205 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 24 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bad on drums

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

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
205
LENGTH
8:02
DIFFICULTY
38/100

silence through bars 1-24, kick and crashes through bars 25-31, snare through bars 32-82, kick and crashes through bars 83-90, snare through bars 91-106 and kick and crashes through bars 107-117, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x----x--x-x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Bad -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- C, J -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 87-108 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 103-173 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 157-189 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 185-204 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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