Wanted Dead Or Alive · Bon Jovi

91 bars, 4:52, at 74 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

RockPopUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
4:52
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-13, 28-30 and 46-47, and 1 more place -- 25.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 74 BPM
WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 31, 48, 49, 53, 57, 62 and 5 more.

LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32
LOOP · 74 BPM
BARS 48-49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

91 bars across 13 sections: 57 keep time, 11 are fills, 3 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-13.

PART B
BREAK
PART B
PART D
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesGBDS3A+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wanted Dead Or Alive?

74 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Wanted Dead Or Alive hard to play on drums?

53 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 4:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Wanted Dead Or Alive?

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 31, 48, 49, 53, 57, 62 and 5 more.

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