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Story of My Life · Bon Jovi

EXERCISE 1 OF 17
Groove B -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Story of My Life on drums

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

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

TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-24, snare through bars 25-28 and hi-hat through bars 29-53, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Story of My Life -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

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 -- B, D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 20-55 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus 3 and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED