Crash Diet · Guns N' Roses

32 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 1:01 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Rock120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
32
LENGTH
1:01
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 100% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-32 -- 100% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 126 BPM
CRASH DIET · BAR 9
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

32 bars across 2 sections: 24 keep time and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-32.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Crash Diet?

126 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 Crash Diet hard to play on drums?

55 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 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

32 bars, about 1:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 3 exercises over 2 sittings, about 17 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 32 BARS ANALYSED
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