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Keep The Faith · Bon Jovi

EXERCISE 21 OF 37
Fill at bar 62 and 95 (a small one)
101 / 150 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, PART M
COUNT-IN
PART C
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesHECQJ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Keep The Faith on drums

150 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 5:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
5:10
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-39, ride through bars 40-46, hi-hat through bars 47-71, ride through bars 72-82 and hi-hat through bars 83-86, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 40-42, 44-46 and 72-74, and 9 more places -- 24.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    41
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x----x--x--x|
BD |x-x----x--x-----|
Keep The Faith -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 30, 38, 62, 70 and 95.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- H, E -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 27-39 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Bars 45-83 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Bars 51-91 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part J and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Keep The Faith?

116 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 Keep The Faith hard to play on drums?

56 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

150 bars, about 5:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Keep The Faith?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 30, 38, 62, 70 and 95.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 150 BARS ANALYSED