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Bad Medicine · Bon Jovi

EXERCISE 12 OF 50
Groove I
81 / 157 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
CHORUS
PART G
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART G
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
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bad Medicine on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
5:13
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-8, ride through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-31, toms through bars 32-38 and ride through bars 39-46, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x-x-x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Bad Medicine -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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, D -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part G -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part G and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part K -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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