Every Rose Has Its Thorn · Poison

64 bars, 3:39, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

RockPopUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
64
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 33, and 4 more places -- 35% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 70 BPM
EVERY ROSE HAS ITS THORN · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 12, 24, 32, 52 and 56.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

64 bars across 6 sections: 46 keep time, 5 are fills, 3 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-43.

COUNT-IN
PART A
PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesFACS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Every Rose Has Its Thorn?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Every Rose Has Its Thorn hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

64 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 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 Every Rose Has Its Thorn?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 12, 24, 32, 52 and 56.

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