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Badfish · Sublime

EXERCISE 3 OF 8
Groove C
51 / 68 BARS COVERED
0 / 8 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE VERSE, VERSE 2
COUNT-IN
VERSE
OUTRO
VERSE 2
3 groovesBS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Badfish on drums

68 bars of 4/4 at a walking 79 BPM, 3:27 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
79 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-48, silence through bars 49-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-68.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-19, 21-27 and 29-47, and 2 more places -- 89.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xgxgxgxgxgxgxgxg|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Badfish -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 52.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 6 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. Through the Verse and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Badfish?

79 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 Badfish hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 3 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Badfish?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 52.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 68 BARS ANALYSED