Livin' On A Prayer · Bon Jovi

127 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 4:07 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17 and 19, and 7 more places -- 24.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 123 BPM
LIVIN' ON A PRAYER · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 11, 39, 47, 57, 73, 81 and 5 more.

LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 91 · LANDS ON BAR 92

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

127 bars across 11 sections: 74 keep time, 11 are fills, 26 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-38.

COUNT-IN
PART A
CHORUS
PART G
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDJIGA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Livin' On A Prayer?

123 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 Livin' On A Prayer hard to play on drums?

57 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 4:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 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 Livin' On A Prayer?

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 11, 39, 47, 57, 73, 81 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED
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