Edge Of A Broken Heart · Bon Jovi

129 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Rock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
4:16
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27, 29 and 31, and 9 more places -- 11.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
EDGE OF A BROKEN HEART · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 14, 26, 42, 50, 78, 86 and 4 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 17 sections: 66 keep time, 10 are fills, 20 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 61-69.

PART S4
PART L
PART O
CHORUS
PART W
PART K
PART AA
PART AE
OUTRO
14 groovesSKOLW+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Edge Of A Broken Heart?

120 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 Edge Of A Broken Heart 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 4:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 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 Edge Of A Broken Heart?

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 14, 26, 42, 50, 78, 86 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED
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