Anything Goes · Guns N' Roses

130 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 3:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-35, 38-39 and 50-51, and 10 more places -- 20.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 152 BPM
ANYTHING GOES · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 17, 25, 40, 41, 67, 83 and 4 more.

LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 152 BPM
BARS 40-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 67 · LANDS ON BAR 68 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

130 bars across 14 sections: 72 keep time, 10 are fills, 35 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-16.

PART B
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART R
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesKHBRF+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Anything Goes?

152 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 Anything Goes 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Anything Goes?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 17, 25, 40, 41, 67, 83 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED
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