Something For The Pain · Bon Jovi

16 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 0:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockPop90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
16
LENGTH
0:38
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 78% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15 -- 77.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 102 BPM
SOMETHING FOR THE PAIN · BAR 9
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

16 bars across 2 sections: 4 keep time, 5 are stops and 7 are silent.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Something For The Pain?

102 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 Something For The Pain hard to play on drums?

37 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

16 bars, about 0:38 at the written tempo. The course takes it in a single sitting of 3 exercises.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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