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Social Disease · Bon Jovi

EXERCISE 1 OF 17
Groove C -- Chorus
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CHORUS
4 groovesCS1S3S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Social Disease on drums

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

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
44/100

hi-hat through bars 2-42, snare through bars 43-45, hi-hat through bars 46-79, snare through bars 80-82, hi-hat through bars 83-119 and snare through bars 120-124.

The beat

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.

    12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--------x-x---x-|
Social Disease -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- C, F -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and the Break -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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