Living In Sin · Bon Jovi

104 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 4:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
4:37
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-25, 27-29 and 45-47, and 10 more places -- 28.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 90 BPM
LIVING IN SIN · BAR 24
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 22, 44, 52, 54, 62, 76 and 2 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 10 sections: 78 keep time, 8 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 90-103.

PART A
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART A
OUTRO 2
4 groovesGABEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Living In Sin?

90 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 Living In Sin hard to play on drums?

49 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 4:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 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 Living In Sin?

7 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 22, 44, 52, 54, 62, 76 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
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