Joey · Bon Jovi

110 bars of 4/4 at a walking 89 BPM, 4:57 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPopUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
89 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
4:57
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-14, 16-19 and 21, and 8 more places -- 24.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 89 BPM
JOEY · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 20, 28, 32, 46, 50, 54 and 13 more.

LOOP · 89 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 89 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 89 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55
LOOP · 89 BPM
BAR 70 · LANDS ON BAR 71

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

110 bars across 8 sections: 72 keep time, 19 are fills, 1 is a stop and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 99-108.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesGCBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Joey?

89 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 Joey hard to play on drums?

52 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 4:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Joey?

8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 20, 28, 32, 46, 50, 54 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED
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