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Livin' On A Prayer by Bon Jovi · НШБ 41

EXERCISE 5 OF 24
Groove G -- Part G
60 / 127 BARS COVERED
0 / 24 PASSED · 46 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Livin' On A Prayer by Bon Jovi on drums

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 and kick.

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

TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-11, hi-hat through bars 12-47, ride through bars 48-57, hi-hat through bars 58-81, ride through bars 82-98 and toms through bars 99-100, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-22, 24-38 and 40-46, and 4 more places -- 50.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 11, 23, 39, 47, 57, 73 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 52-105 -- 9 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Livin' On A Prayer by Bon Jovi?

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 by Bon Jovi hard to play on drums?

45 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 29 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 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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 by Bon Jovi?

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 11, 23, 39, 47, 57, 73 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED