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Live And Let Die · Guns N' Roses

EXERCISE 8 OF 34
Groove I
39 / 76 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Live And Let Die on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
62 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
4:46
DIFFICULTY
42/100

silence through bars 1-7, toms through bars 8-12, hi-hat through bars 13-30, toms through bars 31-34, hi-hat through bars 35-48 and ride through bars 49-56, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 24, 30, 31 and 11 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 -- G, S -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 35-60 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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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