Bad Boys · Whitesnake

155 bars of 4/4 at 154 BPM, about 4:02 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
154 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 14 and 18, and 37 more places -- 29.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 154 BPM
BAD BOYS · BAR 30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 8, 9, 12, 13, 16, 17 and 10 more.

LOOP · 154 BPM
BARS 8-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 154 BPM
BARS 12-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 154 BPM
BARS 16-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 154 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

155 bars across 15 sections: 91 keep time, 16 are fills, 22 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 139-154.

PART F
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART A
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesEFVAS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bad Boys?

154 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 Boys hard to play on drums?

56 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

155 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 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 Bad Boys?

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 8, 9, 12, 13, 16, 17 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 155 BARS ANALYSED
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