American Bad Ass · Kid Rock

145 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 6:18 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockMetal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
6:18
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-12, 14-16 and 18-20, and 9 more places -- 35.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 92 BPM
AMERICAN BAD ASS · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 4, 9, 17, 23, 30, 31 and 5 more.

LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

145 bars across 13 sections: 87 keep time, 11 are fills, 22 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 32-44.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART R
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART AC
PART AE
OUTRO 2
9 groovesHAERAAC+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is American Bad Ass?

92 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 American Bad Ass hard to play on drums?

40 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 6:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 American Bad Ass?

10 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 4, 9, 17, 23, 30, 31 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED
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