Social Disease · Bon Jovi

124 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:58 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

RockPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-8, 11-13 and 15, and 34 more places -- 54.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 125 BPM
SOCIAL DISEASE · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 120 and 121.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 120-121 · LANDS ON BAR 122 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

124 bars across 4 sections: 118 keep time, 2 are fills, 2 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-119.

CHORUS
4 groovesCS1S3S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Social Disease?

125 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 Social Disease hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 7 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Social Disease?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 120 and 121.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED
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