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Johnny Wants To Fight · Badflower

EXERCISE 9 OF 20
Join Part B to Part C (bars 7-9)
48 / 71 BARS COVERED
0 / 20 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART C
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Johnny Wants To Fight on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
73 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
41/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-34, silence through bars 35-36, hi-hat through bars 37-44 and ride through bars 45-52, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    19               20
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|o-o-o-o-o-o-----|
SD |----x--x----x---|----x--x----xxxx|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|x-x-----x-x-----|
Johnny Wants To Fight -- 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 18, 61 and 62.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 7-34 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 33-48 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 71 BARS ANALYSED