Johnny Wants To Fight · Badflower

71 bars, 3:53, at 73 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
73 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 19-26, 37-44 and 55-60, and 1 more place -- 48.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 73 BPM
JOHNNY WANTS TO FIGHT · BARS 19-20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 18, 61 and 62.

LOOP · 73 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 73 BPM
BARS 61-62 · LANDS ON BAR 63 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

71 bars across 10 sections: 56 keep time, 3 are fills and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-34.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART J
OUTRO
8 groovesFCJBS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Johnny Wants To Fight?

73 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Johnny Wants To Fight hard to play on drums?

41 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

71 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Johnny Wants To Fight?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 18, 61 and 62.

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