Santa Fe · Bon Jovi

95 bars, 5:21, at 71 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

RockPopUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
71 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
5:21
DIFFICULTY
31/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-24, 26-28 and 48-50, and 11 more places -- 40% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 71 BPM
SANTA FE · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 1, 5, 13, 21, 30, 31 and 5 more.

LOOP · 71 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 71 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 71 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 71 BPM
BARS 30-31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

95 bars across 3 sections: 79 keep time, 11 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 60-85.

PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesHDBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Santa Fe?

71 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Santa Fe hard to play on drums?

31 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 10 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 5:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 4 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 Santa Fe?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 1, 5, 13, 21, 30, 31 and 5 more.

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