Locomotive (Complicity) · Guns N' Roses

251 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 8:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
251
LENGTH
8:26
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 8-12 and 14, and 19 more places -- 20.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 118 BPM
LOCOMOTIVE (COMPLICITY) · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 1, 21, 25, 33, 41, 46 and 30 more.

LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

251 bars across 20 sections: 180 keep time, 36 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-17.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART AJ
OUTRO 2
10 groovesBAPRWN+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Locomotive (Complicity)?

118 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 Locomotive (Complicity) hard to play on drums?

60 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

251 bars, about 8:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 20 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Locomotive (Complicity)?

16 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 1, 21, 25, 33, 41, 46 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 251 BARS ANALYSED
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