Burning For Love · Bon Jovi

156 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:54 of it without a break -- on hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and floor tom.

RockPop150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
21/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 87% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-24 and 26-40, and 9 more places -- 86.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BURNING FOR LOVE · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 153, 154, 155 and 156.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 153-156 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

156 bars across 5 sections: 145 keep time, 4 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-82.

CHORUS
OUTRO
4 groovesBS2DS4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Burning For Love?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Burning For Love hard to play on drums?

21 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 8 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and floor tom. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Burning For Love?

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 153, 154, 155 and 156.

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