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Blaze of Glory · Bon Jovi

EXERCISE 5 OF 49
Groove N -- Part N
43 / 106 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N, OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blaze of Glory on drums

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.

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
5:17
DIFFICULTY
46/100

hi-hat through bars 2-9, ride through bars 10-13, silence through bars 14-17, kick and crashes through bars 18-20, hi-hat through bars 21-33 and ride through bars 34-39, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    34
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x---x-----|
Blaze of Glory -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- I, F -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 2-22 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 2-13 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 18-38 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 40-55 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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