bad · Wave To Earth

147 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 4:19 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
4:19
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 6-7 and 9, and 28 more places -- 30.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 136 BPM
BAD · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 1, 33, 49, 81, 89, 93 and 4 more.

LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 81 · LANDS ON BAR 82 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 89 · LANDS ON BAR 90

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

147 bars across 12 sections: 97 keep time, 10 are fills, 13 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-32.

CHORUS
PART C
PART F
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART S9
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBCFJS9+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is bad?

136 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 hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

147 bars, about 4:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in bad?

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 1, 33, 49, 81, 89, 93 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 147 BARS ANALYSED
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