You Give Love a Bad Name! · Bon Jovi

111 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 3:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-7, 9-10 and 33-35, and 11 more places -- 32.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 123 BPM
YOU GIVE LOVE A BAD NAME! · BARS 5-6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 4, 12, 16, 24, 32, 42 and 9 more.

LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 12 sections: 72 keep time, 15 are fills, 12 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 99-106.

CHORUS
PART K
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART N
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
7 groovesCKNADY+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is You Give Love a Bad Name!?

123 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 You Give Love a Bad Name! hard to play on drums?

52 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 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 You Give Love a Bad Name!?

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 4, 12, 16, 24, 32, 42 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED
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