Civil War (Album) · Guns N' Roses

139 bars, 7:43, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

RockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
7:43
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 23-25, 27-29 and 33-35, and 5 more places -- 19.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 72 BPM
CIVIL WAR (ALBUM) · BARS 23-24
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 21, 22, 32, 42, 43, 44 and 18 more.

LOOP · 72 BPM
BARS 21-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 72 BPM
BARS 42-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

139 bars across 13 sections: 82 keep time, 24 are fills, 4 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 75-83.

PART S3
CHORUS
PART P
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesEPAEAGS3+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Civil War (Album)?

72 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Civil War (Album) hard to play on drums?

49 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 7:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Civil War (Album)?

10 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 21, 22, 32, 42, 43, 44 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED
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