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Badge · Cream

EXERCISE 1 OF 18
Groove F -- Outro (a two-bar phrase)
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PART B
PART B
BREAK 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFBIS5S1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Badge on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
2:36
DIFFICULTY
43/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-28, silence through bars 29-34 and ride through bars 35-69.

The beat

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.

    35               36
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |------x-----x---|x-------------x-|
RD |x-x-x---x-x---x-|--x-x-x-x-x-x---|
SD |----x-----x-----|----x---x-x-x---|
BD |------x-----x---|x-------------x-|
Badge -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- F, B -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part B and the Break -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 27-62 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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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