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Livin' On A Prayer · Bon Jovi

EXERCISE 22 OF 29
Part H into Chorus 2 with the record (bars 68-75)
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0 / 29 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, CHORUS 2
PART D
PART H
CHORUS
PART D
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
6 groovesJDHS1S2+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Livin' On A Prayer on drums

108 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 3:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
42/100

snare through bars 3-4, hi-hat through bars 5-28, ride through bars 29-37, hi-hat through bars 38-39, snare through bars 40-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-62, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-44, 71-78 and 81-82, and 4 more places -- 36.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    37
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-----x-|
Livin' On A Prayer -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 3, 4, 12, 28, 36, 46 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- J, D -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Through the Break and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 29-62 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 68-101 -- 7 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Livin' On A Prayer?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 3, 4, 12, 28, 36, 46 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED