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Only Lonely · Bon Jovi

EXERCISE 1 OF 44
Groove D -- Chorus 2
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CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Only Lonely on drums

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.

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
4:47
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-90, ride through bars 91-95, snare through bars 96-104, ride through bars 105-120 and hi-hat through bars 121-144.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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, U -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 3-109 -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part G and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-32 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 25-102 -- 9 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 95-121 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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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