Hard Skool · Guns N' Roses

152 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 3:37 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Rock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 51% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6-12, 14-28 and 46-60, and 5 more places -- 51.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 168 BPM
HARD SKOOL · BARS 6-7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 13, 37, 61, 69, 111, 118 and 3 more.

LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 111 · LANDS ON BAR 112
LOOP · 168 BPM
BARS 118-119 · LANDS ON BAR 120 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 127 · LANDS ON BAR 128

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

152 bars across 12 sections: 111 keep time, 10 are fills, 18 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-33.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART M
CHORUS 3
PART O
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCGOMT+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hard Skool?

168 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Hard Skool hard to play on drums?

52 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 10 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 Hard Skool?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 13, 37, 61, 69, 111, 118 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED
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