Born To Be My Baby · Bon Jovi

149 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:35 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
4:35
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 34 and 38, and 25 more places -- 27% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BORN TO BE MY BABY · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 1, 5, 33, 50, 74, 90 and 10 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

149 bars across 17 sections: 52 keep time, 16 are fills, 63 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-17.

PART B
PART G
PART L
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
7 groovesDBJRG+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Born To Be My Baby?

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 Born To Be My Baby hard to play on drums?

48 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 4:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 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 Born To Be My Baby?

11 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 1, 5, 33, 50, 74, 90 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED
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