Coma · Guns N' Roses

319 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 9:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockMetal120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
319
LENGTH
9:58
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 19-25, 69-75 and 101-107, and 2 more places -- 11.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 128 BPM
COMA · BARS 19-20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 21 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 7-14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 36-38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 47-48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

319 bars across 31 sections: 228 keep time, 27 are fills, 9 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 128-167.

PART AN
PART Q
18 groovesHQANBAR+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Coma?

128 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 Coma hard to play on drums?

51 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

319 bars, about 9:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 96 exercises over 24 sittings, about 27 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 Coma?

13 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 319 BARS ANALYSED
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