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Just Older · Bon Jovi

EXERCISE 1 OF 34
Groove C -- Chorus 2
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BREAK
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
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Just Older on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
60/100

hi-hat through bars 3-92, silence through bars 93-117 and hi-hat through bars 118-140.

The beat

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.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |----x---x---x---|
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Just Older -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 2-18 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 10-44 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 41-68 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 65-92 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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