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Hook Me Up · Bon Jovi

EXERCISE 21 OF 21
Play the whole song with the record
100 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 21 PASSED · 117 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART S3
PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDBS9S3F+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hook Me Up on drums

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.

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
129 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
41/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-8, snare through bars 9-17, silence through bars 18-28, kick and crashes through bars 29-32 and hi-hat through bars 33-36, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Hook Me Up -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- D -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 15-36 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 35-48 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 49-95 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED