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Raise Your Hands · Bon Jovi

EXERCISE 1 OF 29
Groove D -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDGPS2S8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Raise Your Hands on drums

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.

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
52/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, snare through bars 33-34, hi-hat through bars 35-36 and snare through bars 37-40, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    11               12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|--------x---x---|
RD |----x---x---x---|x---x-----------|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x--x--|x--x----x-------|
Raise Your Hands -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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, G -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Bars 3-48 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 37-98 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 4 and Part P -- 9 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
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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