Bad Company
Bad Company · 1974
A slow, deliberate groove that teaches playing with weight, space, and patience.
- Artist
- Bad Company
- Year
- 1974
- Genre
- classic rock
- Drummer
- Simon Kirke
- Tempo
- 68 bpm
- Time
- 4/4
- Feel
- slow, deliberate rock
- Difficulty
- beginner
Drummer's Quick-Start
Practice tempos
Woodshed
40bpm
Building
54bpm
Target
68bpm
The feel
A slow, deliberate rock in 4/4 around 68 BPM. It's slow — the space between hits is the hard part; keep the pulse dead steady and resist filling gaps.
What to watch
- •Play to a metronome and prize consistency over speed — even time is the whole game.
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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