Bad To The Bone · George Thorogood & The Destroyers

118 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 146 BPM, 4:49 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
4:49
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 81% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-34, 37-44 and 47, and 6 more places -- 80.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 146 BPM
BAD TO THE BONE · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 4, 45, 46, 67 and 68.

LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 146 BPM
BARS 45-46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 146 BPM
BARS 67-68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

118 bars across 3 sections: 72 keep time, 5 are fills and 41 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-44.

OUTRO
BREAK
3 groovesDS3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bad To The Bone?

146 BPM, in 6/4, 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 To The Bone hard to play on drums?

50 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 4:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 To The Bone?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 4, 45, 46, 67 and 68.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED
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