Without Love · Bon Jovi

94 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 21 more places -- 26.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 110 BPM
WITHOUT LOVE · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 19, 20, 39, 40, 54, 56 and 6 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 63 · LANDS ON BAR 64

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

94 bars across 6 sections: 64 keep time, 12 are fills, 8 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 74-89.

PART B
CHORUS
PART C
PART S4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesECBS4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Without Love?

110 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 Without Love hard to play on drums?

46 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 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 Without Love?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 19, 20, 39, 40, 54, 56 and 6 more.

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