I'll Sleep When I'm Dead · Bon Jovi

148 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
4:37
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 73-75, 77 and 79-81, and 8 more places -- 23.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
I'LL SLEEP WHEN I'M DEAD · BAR 73
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 30, 58, 59, 95, 96 and 104.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 104 · LANDS ON BAR 105

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

148 bars across 10 sections: 130 keep time and 6 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-29.

PART B
CHORUS
PART G
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART R
PART T
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDRBNT+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I'll Sleep When I'm Dead?

125 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 I'll Sleep When I'm Dead 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 4:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 I'll Sleep When I'm Dead?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 30, 58, 59, 95, 96 and 104.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED
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