Misunderstood (Whole Step Up) · Bon Jovi

90 bars of 4/4 at 111 BPM, about 3:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
111 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 68% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-13, 17-22 and 24-26, and 9 more places -- 67.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 111 BPM
MISUNDERSTOOD (WHOLE STEP UP) · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 53 and 77.

LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 4 sections: 82 keep time, 2 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 31-52.

PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBAFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Misunderstood (Whole Step Up)?

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 (Whole Step Up) hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 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 (Whole Step Up)?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 53 and 77.

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