Only Lonely · Bon Jovi

144 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
4:47
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-9, 29-31 and 33-35, and 9 more places -- 54.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
ONLY LONELY · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 3, 4, 10, 28, 36, 58 and 15 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 3-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

144 bars across 12 sections: 106 keep time, 22 are fills, 3 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 129-144.

PART G
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesDURGI+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Only Lonely?

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 Only Lonely hard to play on drums?

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 4:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 7 sittings, about 29 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 Only Lonely?

11 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 3, 4, 10, 28, 36, 58 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED
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