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Wanted Dead Or Alive · Bon Jovi

EXERCISE 14 OF 41
Groove H
49 / 91 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wanted Dead Or Alive on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
4:52
DIFFICULTY
53/100

ride through bars 2-13, silence through bars 14-20, hi-hat through bars 21-23, silence through bars 24-27 and ride through bars 28-91.

The beat

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.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |-----gx------gx-|
BD |x--gx---x--gx---|
HF |--x-------x-----|
Wanted Dead Or Alive -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- B, G -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 51-64 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 62-91 -- 10 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 91 BARS ANALYSED