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Chinese Democracy · Guns N' Roses

EXERCISE 1 OF 9
Groove B -- Outro
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0 / 9 PASSED · 66 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Chinese Democracy on drums

98 bars of 4/4 at 131 BPM, about 3:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-98.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 13-15, and 23 more places -- 70.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-----x-x---|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|
Chinese Democracy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 97 and 98.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 7 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 -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Chinese Democracy?

131 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 Chinese Democracy hard to play on drums?

54 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Chinese Democracy?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 97 and 98.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED