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The King Of The Mountain · Bon Jovi

EXERCISE 36 OF 36
Play the whole song with the record
92 / 92 BARS COVERED
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PART A
PART C
PART F
CHORUS
PART C
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesHACMFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The King Of The Mountain on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
44/100

snare through bars 1-18, toms through bars 19-20, ride through bars 21-24, hi-hat through bars 25-31, snare through bars 32-38 and toms through bars 39-40, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
The King Of The Mountain -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- H, C -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 14-22 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 19-25 -- 5 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Bars 25-53 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 54-92 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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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