Bad Boy Boogie · AC/DC

155 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:24 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-15, 18-24 and 26-28, and 15 more places -- 43.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAD BOY BOOGIE · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 9, 16, 32, 40, 47 and 11 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 8-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

155 bars across 8 sections: 120 keep time, 17 are fills and 7 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-31.

PART B
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFOIBE+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bad Boy Boogie?

140 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 Bad Boy Boogie hard to play on drums?

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

155 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Bad Boy Boogie?

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 9, 16, 32, 40, 47 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 155 BARS ANALYSED
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