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14 Years · Guns N' Roses

EXERCISE 19 OF 28
Groove K -- Part K
139 / 146 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
PART C
CHORUS
PART I
PART K
OUTRO
4 groovesEICKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 14 Years on drums

146 bars of 4/4 at 139 BPM, about 4:12 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
139 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
52/100

snare through bars 1-2, kick and crashes through bars 3-10, ride through bars 11-34, hi-hat through bars 35-42, ride through bars 43-82 and hi-hat through bars 83-120, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-34, 43-82 and 121-140 -- 57.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
14 Years -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 38, 42, 86, 90 and 144.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- E, C -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 111-146 -- 8 exercises, about 36 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is 14 Years?

139 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 14 Years 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 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 14 Years?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 38, 42, 86, 90 and 144.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED