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Misunderstood · Bon jovi

EXERCISE 4 OF 13
Fill at bar 16 and 66
78 / 90 BARS COVERED
0 / 13 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO, OUTRO 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Misunderstood on drums

90 bars of 4/4 at 111 BPM, about 3:14 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
111 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-46, snare through bars 47-52, hi-hat through bars 53-69, snare through bars 70-76 and hi-hat through bars 77-80, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-29 and 31-45, and 4 more places -- 76.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
Misunderstood -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 16, 66 and 77.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Misunderstood?

111 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 Misunderstood hard to play on drums?

46 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Misunderstood?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 16, 66 and 77.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED