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It's My Life · Bon Jovi

EXERCISE 1 OF 14
Groove D -- Chorus
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CHORUS
OUTRO 2
2 groovesDEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play It's My Life on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
55/100

hi-hat through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-6, hi-hat through bars 7-36, snare through bars 37-39, hi-hat through bars 40-74 and kick and crashes through bars 75-79, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
It's My Life -- 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 74.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED