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Its My Life by Bon Jovi · AlexMan

EXERCISE 1 OF 7
Groove D -- Chorus
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CHORUS
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDS3AFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Its My Life by Bon Jovi on drums

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.

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
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
45/100

toms through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-75, silence through bars 76-79 and hi-hat through bars 80-111.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Its My Life by Bon Jovi -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 6 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 -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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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