Live And Let Die · Guns N' Roses

76 bars, 4:46, at 62 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

RockJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
62 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
4:46
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-15, 18-19 and 21-23, and 8 more places -- 31.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 62 BPM
LIVE AND LET DIE · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 24, 30, 31 and 11 more.

LOOP · 62 BPM
BARS 9-11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 62 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 62 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

76 bars across 7 sections: 34 keep time, 17 are fills, 14 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-23.

COUNT-IN
PART A
CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesGSOS1AFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Live And Let Die?

62 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 Live And Let Die hard to play on drums?

42 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 4:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Live And Let Die?

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 24, 30, 31 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED
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