Blaze Of Glory · Jon Bon Jovi

105 bars of 4/4 at a walking 79 BPM, 5:19 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockPopUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
79 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
5:19
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-40, 44-50 and 52-59, and 2 more places -- 44.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 79 BPM
BLAZE OF GLORY · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 10 sections: 91 keep time, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-71.

PART B
PART A
CHORUS
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDBAHS3+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blaze Of Glory?

79 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 5:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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