Story of My Life · Bon Jovi

139 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 3:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

RockPop120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 59% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16, 34-48 and 50-53, and 5 more places -- 58.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 142 BPM
STORY OF MY LIFE · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 90, 116 and 124.

LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 90 · LANDS ON BAR 91 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

139 bars across 13 sections: 69 keep time, 3 are fills, 41 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 43-53.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS 3
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBAS12DF+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Story of My Life?

142 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 Story of My Life hard to play on drums?

47 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Story of My Life?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 90, 116 and 124.

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