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Undivided · Bon Jovi

EXERCISE 13 OF 14
Run C3 · Outro 2 (bars 68-103)
101 / 103 BARS COVERED
0 / 14 PASSED · 36 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesCAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Undivided on drums

103 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:26 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
43/100

toms through bars 1-12, snare through bars 13-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, toms through bars 25-32, snare through bars 33-34 and hi-hat through bars 35-58, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-24, 35-58 and 68-82, and 1 more place -- 61.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Undivided -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 66, 67 and 83.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 13-84 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Undivided?

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 Undivided hard to play on drums?

43 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Undivided?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 66, 67 and 83.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED