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Coma · Guns N' Roses

EXERCISE 24 OF 110
Join Part K to Part L (bars 38-40)
126 / 319 BARS COVERED
0 / 110 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, PART L
PART K
PART L
PART AN
PART Q
18 groovesHQANBAR+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 22
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 4
JOIN · 27
LINK · 15
SECTION · 15
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Coma on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
319
LENGTH
9:58
DIFFICULTY
51/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-6, toms through bars 7-18, hi-hat through bars 19-38, ride through bars 39-42 and hi-hat through bars 43-48, and 22 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    19               20
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----x-------x---|--------x---x---|
HH |--------o-------|o---o-----------|
SD |----x-------x---|----x---x---x---|
BD |x-x-----x-----x-|--x---x---x-----|
Coma -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 96 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 -- H, Q -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 17-31 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 38-87 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part U -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 16 more sittings after that.
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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