Bad Medicine · Bon Jovi

157 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
5:13
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-15 and 40-42, and 13 more places -- 28.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAD MEDICINE · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 4, 90, 91, 92, 123, 124 and 2 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 90-92 · LANDS ON BAR 93 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 123-124 · LANDS ON BAR 125 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 127 · LANDS ON BAR 128
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

157 bars across 19 sections: 106 keep time, 8 are fills, 9 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 138-157.

CHORUS
PART G
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART N
CHORUS 3
PART D
CHORUS 4
PART AF
OUTRO
10 groovesEGNAFK+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bad Medicine?

120 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 Medicine hard to play on drums?

49 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 5:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Medicine?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 4, 90, 91, 92, 123, 124 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 157 BARS ANALYSED
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