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Burning For Love · Bon Jovi

EXERCISE 5 OF 11
Run B1 · Chorus (bars 1-82)
139 / 156 BARS COVERED
0 / 11 PASSED · 82 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
OUTRO
4 groovesBS2DS4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Burning For Love on drums

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.

21 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how often it moves around the kit.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
21/100

hi-hat through bars 1-82, silence through bars 83-87, toms through bars 88-90 and hi-hat through bars 91-156.

The beat

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.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
T2 |----x-------x---|
Burning For Love -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 9 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 6 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED