Dead Horse · Guns N' Roses

105 bars of 4/4 at 137 BPM, about 3:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 9-13 and 15, and 9 more places -- 52.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 137 BPM
DEAD HORSE · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 6, 8, 38, 40, 46, 54 and 14 more.

LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 6 sections: 69 keep time, 20 are fills, 7 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-37.

CHORUS
PART E
PART P
OUTRO
4 groovesCPES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dead Horse?

137 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 Dead Horse 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Dead Horse?

7 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 6, 8, 38, 40, 46, 54 and 14 more.

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