Evil · Melanie Martinez

101 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 4:10 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 91% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-16, 18-25 and 28-39, and 5 more places -- 91.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 96 BPM
EVIL · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 8 sections: 88 keep time, 1 is a stop and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 27-60.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBS7S1S3S5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Evil?

96 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 Evil hard to play on drums?

39 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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