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Edge Of A Broken Heart · Bon Jovi

EXERCISE 1 OF 62
Groove K -- Part K
0 / 129 BARS COVERED
0 / 62 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT
PART S4
PART L
PART O
CHORUS
PART W
PART K
PART AA
PART AE
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesSKOLW+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 9
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Edge Of A Broken Heart on drums

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.

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
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
4:16
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, silence through bars 17-26, hi-hat through bars 27-42 and ride through bars 43-54, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- K, L -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 14-34 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part O -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 31-44 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part O and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part W -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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