Blaze of Glory (RJG) · Bon Jovi

107 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 5:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
5:20
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-37, 39-41 and 65, and 6 more places -- 17% 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 (RJG) · BAR 35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 22, 26, 38, 42, 58, 64 and 12 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

107 bars across 16 sections: 66 keep time, 18 are fills, 2 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-13.

PART C
PART G
CHORUS
VERSE
CHORUS 2
PART U
OUTRO
12 groovesICMEU+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blaze of Glory (RJG)?

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 (RJG) 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?

107 bars, about 5:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Blaze of Glory (RJG)?

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 22, 26, 38, 42, 58, 64 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED
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