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Shot Through The Heart · Bon Jovi

EXERCISE 9 OF 40
Groove F
97 / 163 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART C
CHORUS
PART S5
CHORUS 2
PART C
OUTRO
8 groovesECS5S2S1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 1
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Shot Through The Heart on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-36, hi-hat through bars 37-44, ride through bars 45-53, silence through bars 54-71, hi-hat through bars 72-80 and ride through bars 81-88, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    46
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Shot Through The Heart -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- E, C -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part S5 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 53-91 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 92-101 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 106-131 -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 129-163 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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