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Livin on a Prayer · Jon Bon Jovi

Livin on a Prayer · Jon Bon Jovi
EXERCISE 27 OF 41
Run H2 · Chorus 2 (bars 72-78)
108 / 128 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
COUNT-IN
PART A
PART C
CHORUS
PART G
PART C
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
7 groovesHCGAS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Livin on a Prayer on drums

128 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 4:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

51 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
128
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-7, ride through bars 8-11, hi-hat through bars 12-39, ride through bars 40-54, hi-hat through bars 55-73 and ride through bars 74-98, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 40, 42 and 44-46, and 21 more places -- 29.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    40
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |----x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Livin on a Prayer -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 11, 23, 39, 47, 55, 57 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- G, C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 19-37 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Bars 36-48 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Bars 45-75 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 72-94 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 108-128 -- 5 exercises, about 24 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?

51 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 4:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 12 times: bars 11, 23, 39, 47, 55, 57 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED