Bad Company · Bad Company

131 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 4:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
4:41
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-31, 34 and 64-65, and 10 more places -- 20.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BAD COMPANY · BAR 30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 28, 32, 36, 62, 66, 74 and 9 more.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 74 · LANDS ON BAR 75
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

131 bars across 8 sections: 86 keep time, 15 are fills, 3 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 41-61.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesADSCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bad Company?

112 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 Company hard to play on drums?

46 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 4:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Company?

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 28, 32, 36, 62, 66, 74 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED
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