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I'll Sleep When I'm Dead · Bon Jovi

EXERCISE 6 OF 44
Groove A
87 / 148 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART T
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 9
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I'll Sleep When I'm Dead on drums

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.

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
4:37
DIFFICULTY
45/100

toms through bar 1, snare through bars 2-30, kick and crashes through bars 31-38, snare through bars 39-48, hi-hat through bars 49-59 and kick and crashes through bars 60-66, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    73
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |x---------------|
T2 |--------x-x-----|
BD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- R, B, D -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Bars 47-60 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 74-90 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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