Badge · Cream

69 bars of 4/4 at a walking 106 BPM, 2:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
2:36
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 35-57 -- 38.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 106 BPM
BADGE · BARS 35-36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 12, 25 and 69.

LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 69
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

69 bars across 7 sections: 55 keep time, 3 are fills and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-57.

PART B
PART B
BREAK 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFBIS5S1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Badge?

106 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 Badge hard to play on drums?

43 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

69 bars, about 2:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 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 Badge?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 12, 25 and 69.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 69 BARS ANALYSED
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