Bed Of Roses · Bon Jovi

92 bars, 6:36, at 53 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

RockPopUnder 90 BPMShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
53 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
6:36
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-42, 45-47 and 49-50, and 7 more places -- 38.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 53 BPM
BED OF ROSES · BAR 45
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 2, 3, 5, 7, 16, 26 and 8 more.

LOOP · 53 BPM
BARS 2-3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 53 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 53 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 53 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

92 bars across 11 sections: 52 keep time, 14 are fills, 8 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-25.

PART D
PART I
PART O
CHORUS
BREAK 3
OUTRO
10 groovesRIOS9D+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bed Of Roses?

53 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Bed Of Roses hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 6:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Bed Of Roses?

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 2, 3, 5, 7, 16, 26 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Bon Jovi drum parts

EVERY BON JOVI CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →