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American Bad Ass · Kid Rock

EXERCISE 3 OF 49
Groove R -- Part R
70 / 145 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE PART R
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play American Bad Ass on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
6:18
DIFFICULTY
40/100

hi-hat through bars 1-29, snare through bars 30-31, hi-hat through bars 32-51, snare through bars 52-53, silence through bars 54-59 and hi-hat through bars 60-87, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
American Bad Ass -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- H, AE -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part A -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-25 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 24-75 -- 10 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 60-88 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Bars 102-119 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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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