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Without Love · Bon Jovi

EXERCISE 1 OF 29
Groove B -- Part B
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PART B
CHORUS
PART C
PART S4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesECBS4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Without Love on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
46/100

snare through bar 1, ride through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-21, ride through bars 22-29, hi-hat through bars 30-41 and ride through bars 42-54, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Without Love -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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, C -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 55-73 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 64-94 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED