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You Give Love a Bad Name! · Bon Jovi

EXERCISE 33 OF 43
Join Part Y to Part Z (bars 85-87)
101 / 111 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Y, PART Z
CHORUS
PART K
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART N
CHORUS 3
PART Y
PART Z
OUTRO
7 groovesCKNADY+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play You Give Love a Bad Name! on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-11, hi-hat through bars 12-32, ride through bars 33-40, hi-hat through bars 41-63 and ride through bars 64-80, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5                6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-----x---------|----------------|
RD |----x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-------x-|x-------x-----x-|
You Give Love a Bad Name! -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- C, K -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Bars 4-36 -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 21-33 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 29-48 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 80-88 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 85-99 -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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