She Don't Know Me · Bon Jovi

128 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:39 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

RockPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7-9 and 11, and 19 more places -- 41.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
SHE DON'T KNOW ME · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 1, 29, 65, 81, 101 and 117.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 81 · LANDS ON BAR 82
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 101 · LANDS ON BAR 102
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 117 · LANDS ON BAR 118
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

128 bars across 3 sections: 119 keep time and 6 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-64.

PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDGCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is She Don't Know Me?

140 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 She Don't Know Me 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in She Don't Know Me?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 1, 29, 65, 81, 101 and 117.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED
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