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Tokyo Road · Bon Jovi

EXERCISE 1 OF 26
Groove C -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCFQS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tokyo Road on drums

165 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
5:30
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-14, hi-hat through bars 15-31, toms through bars 32-36, ride through bars 37-43 and hi-hat through bars 44-61, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-9, 11-12 and 38-43, and 11 more places -- 34.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    8
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Tokyo Road -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 30, 32, 60 and 62.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- C, Q -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part F -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 3 and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Tokyo Road?

120 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 Tokyo Road hard to play on drums?

50 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?

165 bars, about 5:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Tokyo Road?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 30, 32, 60 and 62.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 165 BARS ANALYSED