Its My Life by Bon Jovi · AlexMan

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

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
45/100
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 BY BON JOVI · 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 by Bon Jovi?

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 by Bon Jovi 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 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, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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