Bad to the Bone
George Thorogood & the Destroyers · 1982
A slow-burning blues shuffle staple for the classic swung boogie groove.
- Artist
- George Thorogood & the Destroyers
- Year
- 1982
- Genre
- blues-rock
- Drummer
- Jeff Simon
- Tempo
- 100 bpm
- Time
- 4/4
- Feel
- shuffle
- Difficulty
- intermediate
Drummer's Quick-Start
Practice tempos
Woodshed
60bpm
Building
80bpm
Target
100bpm
The feel
A shuffle in 4/4 around 100 BPM. A comfortable mid-tempo — lock the backbeat first, then shape the dynamics.
What to watch
- •Lock the shuffle triplet; the #1 mistake is letting it straighten out as you speed up.
How to learn it
Well-known tutorials exist for this one — use the links below, and play along from your own copy.
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Learn it
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