Raise Your Hands · Bon Jovi

144 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 4:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9, 11-13 and 15-16, and 13 more places -- 38.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 136 BPM
RAISE YOUR HANDS · BARS 11-12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 33, 34, 37, 38, 39, 40 and 11 more.

LOOP · 136 BPM
BARS 33-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BARS 37-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 96 · LANDS ON BAR 97
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 104 · LANDS ON BAR 105

2 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: 97 keep time, 17 are fills, 15 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-32.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDGPS2S8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Raise Your Hands?

136 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 Raise Your Hands hard to play on drums?

52 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 4:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Raise Your Hands?

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 33, 34, 37, 38, 39, 40 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED
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