Good Lovin' Gone Bad · Bad Company

113 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:36 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Rock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-25, 27-28 and 43, and 13 more places -- 21.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
GOOD LOVIN' GONE BAD · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 5, 9, 21, 41, 50, 54 and 14 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 7 sections: 75 keep time, 20 are fills and 9 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-30.

PART B
PART G
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFBHGEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Good Lovin' Gone Bad?

125 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 Good Lovin' Gone Bad 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?

113 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Good Lovin' Gone Bad?

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 5, 9, 21, 41, 50, 54 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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