Lay Your Hands On Me · Bon Jovi

117 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
4:37
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 38-40, 42-45 and 63-65, and 3 more places -- 22.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 100 BPM
LAY YOUR HANDS ON ME · BAR 38
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 37, 46, 62, 91, 103, 111 and 1 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 103 · LANDS ON BAR 104
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 111 · LANDS ON BAR 112

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 12 sections: 83 keep time, 7 are fills and 11 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-17.

PART A
PART D
PART F
CHORUS
PART D
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesIDAFR+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lay Your Hands On Me?

100 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Lay Your Hands On Me hard to play on drums?

59 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 4:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, 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 Lay Your Hands On Me?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 37, 46, 62, 91, 103, 111 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED
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