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Misunderstood (Whole Step Up) · Bon Jovi

EXERCISE 14 OF 15
Run B2 · Outro 2 (bars 67-90)
88 / 90 BARS COVERED
0 / 15 PASSED · 24 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBAFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Misunderstood (Whole Step Up) on drums

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

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
111 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
43/100

snare through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-13, snare through bars 14-16 and hi-hat through bars 17-90.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
Misunderstood (Whole Step Up) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Bars 55-70 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED