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Bed Of Roses · Bon Jovi

EXERCISE 1 OF 38
Groove R -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bed Of Roses on drums

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.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
53 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
6:36
DIFFICULTY
67/100

kick and crashes through bars 2-8, silence through bars 9-12, ride through bars 13-16, hi-hat through bars 17-26, ride through bars 27-33 and hi-hat through bars 34-66, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------x-----------------------|
Bed Of Roses -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- R, O -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 2-9 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 13-27 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 23-45 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 7 minutes.
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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