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Dead Horse · Guns N' Roses

EXERCISE 1 OF 31
Groove C -- Chorus
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0 / 31 PASSED · 53 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART E
PART P
OUTRO
4 groovesCPES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dead Horse on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-54, kick and crashes through bars 55-59, hi-hat through bars 60-61, toms through bars 62-65 and ride through bars 66-80, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
Dead Horse -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- C, P -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 61-85 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 81-105 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED