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Bounce · Bon Jovi

EXERCISE 1 OF 11
Groove C -- Chorus
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0 / 11 PASSED · 75 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCAS3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 1
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bounce on drums

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.

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
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
3:02
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-42, toms through bars 43-44, hi-hat through bars 45-63, silence through bars 64-66 and toms through bars 67-71, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 7 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 -- C -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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