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Lay Your Hands On Me · Bon Jovi

EXERCISE 1 OF 42
Groove I -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lay Your Hands On Me on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
4:37
DIFFICULTY
59/100

ride through bars 1-17, hi-hat through bars 18-37, ride through bars 38-46, hi-hat through bars 47-62, ride through bars 63-71 and hi-hat through bars 72-103, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    38
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
RD |----x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---x-----------|
Lay Your Hands On Me -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- I, D -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 19-38 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Bars 34-51 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 51-81 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 76-88 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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