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Blaze of Glory (RJG) · Bon Jovi

EXERCISE 7 OF 56
Groove B
39 / 107 BARS COVERED
0 / 56 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 2
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blaze of Glory (RJG) on drums

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.

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
107
LENGTH
5:20
DIFFICULTY
46/100

hi-hat through bars 3-14, silence through bars 15-19, ride through bars 20-26, hi-hat through bars 27-34, ride through bars 35-42 and hi-hat through bars 43-64, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    35
    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 (RJG) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M, U -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 12-24 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 23-38 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and the Verse -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through the Verse and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 59-73 -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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