Its My Life · Bon Jovi

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

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 77% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 9-11 and 13-15, and 10 more places -- 77.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
ITS MY LIFE · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 4 sections: 101 keep time, 3 are fills, 1 is a stop and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 80-111.

CHORUS
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDS3AFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Its 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 Its My Life hard to play on drums?

44 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 29 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 6 exercises over 3 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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