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Blood On Blood · Bon Jovi

EXERCISE 30 OF 64
Hold Groove I for 8 bars -- Part I (bars 89-96)
150 / 205 BARS COVERED
0 / 64 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
PART H
PART E
PART I
PART H
CHORUS 4
PART A
11 groovesDIEHA+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 4
JOIN · 14
LINK · 13
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blood On Blood on drums

205 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 6:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
205
LENGTH
6:18
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-5, toms through bars 6-11, snare through bars 12-21, hi-hat through bars 22-36, ride through bars 37-67 and hi-hat through bars 68-88, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 43, 45 and 47, and 12 more places -- 17.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x---xx----|
Blood On Blood -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 48, 64, 92, 108, 116, 126 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 56 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 -- H, E -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 10-38 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Bars 42-159 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 53-71 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Blood On Blood?

130 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 Blood On Blood hard to play on drums?

55 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

205 bars, about 6:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 13 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Blood On Blood?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 48, 64, 92, 108, 116, 126 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 205 BARS ANALYSED