The King Of The Mountain · Bon Jovi

92 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

Rock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 45-47, and 5 more places -- 26.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 100 BPM
THE KING OF THE MOUNTAIN · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 18, 20, 24, 32, 38, 40 and 11 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

92 bars across 11 sections: 61 keep time and 17 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-14.

PART A
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART C
OUTRO 2
5 groovesHACMFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The King Of The Mountain?

100 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 The King Of The Mountain 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 3:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 The King Of The Mountain?

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 18, 20, 24, 32, 38, 40 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED
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