It's My Life · Bon Jovi

111 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 63% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 7-16 and 19-25, and 6 more places -- 63.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
IT'S MY LIFE · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 74.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 74 · LANDS ON BAR 75
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 3 sections: 105 keep time, 4 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-49.

CHORUS
OUTRO 2
2 groovesDEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is It's My Life?

120 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 It's My Life hard to play on drums?

55 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 It's My Life?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 74.

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