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Living On A Prayer (SHRED VERSION) · Bon Jovi

EXERCISE 1 OF 28
Groove F -- Chorus
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PART C
PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFCDNQ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Living On A Prayer (SHRED VERSION) on drums

87 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
49/100

hi-hat through bars 3-31, ride through bars 32-48, toms through bars 49-50, hi-hat through bars 51-55, ride through bars 56-71 and silence through bars 72-73, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 32-39, 42-48 and 56-61, and 1 more place -- 34.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Living On A Prayer (SHRED VERSION) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 49, 50, 54, 62, 81 and 85.

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 -- F, C -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. Through Part C and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 31-63 -- 9 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 70-82 -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Living On A Prayer (SHRED VERSION)?

120 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 On A Prayer (SHRED VERSION) 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 5 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Living On A Prayer (SHRED VERSION)?

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 49, 50, 54, 62, 81 and 85.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED