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IRS · Guns N' Roses

EXERCISE 28 OF 31
Play the whole song with the record
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COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDICKF+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play IRS on drums

99 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 4:24 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
38/100

snare through bars 3-70, hi-hat through bars 71-80, snare through bars 81-96 and hi-hat through bars 97-99.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-18 and 23-25, and 2 more places -- 55.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 70, 74, 76, 78, 80, 82 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- D, I -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-26 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-71 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 67-76 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 71-81 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is IRS?

90 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 IRS hard to play on drums?

38 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 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 IRS?

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 70, 74, 76, 78, 80, 82 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED