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Joey · Bon Jovi

EXERCISE 8 OF 35
Groove E
70 / 110 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesGCBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Joey on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
89 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
4:57
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-12 and hi-hat through bars 13-110.

The beat

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.

    14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-o-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------x--x-----|
Joey -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- B, C -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 36 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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