Have A Nice Day · Bon Jovi

123 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:47 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPop120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 3-6, 35-36 and 38-41, and 5 more places -- 28.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 130 BPM
HAVE A NICE DAY · BARS 3-4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 14, 22, 49, 77, 81 and 123.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 77 · LANDS ON BAR 78 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 81 · LANDS ON BAR 82
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

123 bars across 14 sections: 89 keep time, 9 are fills, 4 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 108-122.

PART I
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART L
CHORUS 3
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBLIEP+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Have A Nice Day?

130 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 Have A Nice Day hard to play on drums?

45 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Have A Nice Day?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 14, 22, 49, 77, 81 and 123.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED
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