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Bad Boys · Whitesnake

EXERCISE 1 OF 39
Groove E -- Chorus 3
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PART A
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART F
PART A
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesEFVAS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bad Boys on drums

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.

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
154 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-5, kick and crashes through bars 6-7, snare through bars 8-9, hi-hat through bars 10-11, snare through bars 12-13 and hi-hat through bars 14-15, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- E -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-26 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 30-60 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Bars 60-95 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 95-139 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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