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Bad To The Bone · George Thorogood & The Destroyers

Bad To The Bone · George Thorogood & The Destroyers
EXERCISE 5 OF 13
Groove E
63 / 118 BARS COVERED
0 / 13 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
BREAK
3 groovesDS3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bad To The Bone on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
4:49
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-80 and silence through bars 81-118.

The beat

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.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
HH |x-x-x-X-x-x-x-x-x-X-x-x-|
SD |------X-----------X-----|
BD |x---x-----x-x---x-----x-|
Bad To The Bone -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 9 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 -- D -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Outro and the Break -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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