Shot Through The Heart · Bon Jovi

163 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:05 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45-49, 52 and 81-85, and 2 more places -- 23.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
SHOT THROUGH THE HEART · BAR 46
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 44, 72, 80, 90, 106, 114 and 3 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 90 · LANDS ON BAR 91
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 106 · LANDS ON BAR 107

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

163 bars across 13 sections: 66 keep time, 9 are fills, 32 are stops and 44 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 132-146.

COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART C
PART S5
CHORUS 2
PART C
OUTRO
8 groovesECS5S2S1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Shot Through The Heart?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Shot Through The Heart hard to play on drums?

46 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

163 bars, about 4:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Shot Through The Heart?

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 44, 72, 80, 90, 106, 114 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 163 BARS ANALYSED
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