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Locomotive (Complicity) · Guns N' Roses

EXERCISE 16 OF 83
Groove I
122 / 251 BARS COVERED
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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
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 8
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Locomotive (Complicity) on drums

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.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
251
LENGTH
8:26
DIFFICULTY
60/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-41, ride through bars 42-46, hi-hat through bars 47-83, snare through bars 84-87 and hi-hat through bars 88-108, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 66 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AP, R -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-72 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 13-50 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 35-50 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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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