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Badlands · Bruce Springsteen

EXERCISE 1 OF 23
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBHDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Badlands on drums

120 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 3:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many limbs land on the same note.

TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
56/100

toms through bar 1, ride through bars 2-25, toms through bars 26-33, ride through bars 34-57, toms through bars 58-65 and ride through bars 66-89, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-16 and 18-24, and 6 more places -- 59.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
HF |x---x---x---x---|
Badlands -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 1, 32, 33, 64, 65 and 105.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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, H -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 23-38 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 35-118 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Badlands?

122 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 Badlands hard to play on drums?

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many limbs land on the same note. The beat itself is 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Badlands?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 1, 32, 33, 64, 65 and 105.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED