Bounce · Bon Jovi

96 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:02 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
3:02
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 84% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-8, 11-19 and 21-29, and 4 more places -- 84.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BOUNCE · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 4, 20, 43 and 44.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

96 bars across 5 sections: 83 keep time, 4 are fills and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 73-96.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCAS3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bounce?

125 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 Bounce 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 3:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 2 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Bounce?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 4, 20, 43 and 44.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED
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