The Bad Thing · Arctic Monkeys

65 bars of 4/4 at 111 BPM, about 2:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
111 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
2:21
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-8 and 21-25, and 3 more places -- 33.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 111 BPM
THE BAD THING · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 4, 20, 26, 27, 28, 32 and 8 more.

LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 111 BPM
BARS 26-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

65 bars across 8 sections: 40 keep time, 14 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 43-47.

CHORUS
PART S2
PART D
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesAKFDS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Bad Thing?

111 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 The Bad Thing hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

65 bars, about 2:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 The Bad Thing?

4 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 4, 20, 26, 27, 28, 32 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 65 BARS ANALYSED
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