Blaze of Glory · Bon Jovi

106 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 5:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
5:17
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-36, 38-39 and 52-54, and 9 more places -- 22.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BLAZE OF GLORY · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 2, 3, 25, 37, 41, 55 and 10 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 2-3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 11 sections: 72 keep time, 16 are fills, 2 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 74-84.

PART E
PART A
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesIUEAN+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blaze of Glory?

80 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 Blaze of Glory 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 5:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Blaze of Glory?

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 2, 3, 25, 37, 41, 55 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED
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