Hook Me Up · Bon Jovi

117 bars of 4/4 at 129 BPM, about 3:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockProgressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
129 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 75% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16, 37-44 and 53-75, and 2 more places -- 75% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 129 BPM
HOOK ME UP · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 8.

LOOP · 129 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 10 sections: 29 keep time, 1 is a fill, 65 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 54-61.

PART B
PART S3
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDBS9S3F+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hook Me Up?

129 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 Hook Me Up hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Hook Me Up?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 8.

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