Just Older · Bon Jovi

140 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 4:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 62% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-9, 25-31 and 33-39, and 8 more places -- 62.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 128 BPM
JUST OLDER · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 2, 10, 24, 32, 40, 50 and 6 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

140 bars across 11 sections: 53 keep time, 12 are fills, 45 are stops and 26 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-22.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCS10EKS2+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Just Older?

128 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 Just Older hard to play on drums?

60 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 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Just Older?

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 2, 10, 24, 32, 40, 50 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED
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