Mama Kin · Guns N' Roses

133 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 3:25 of it without a break -- on crash, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 68-83 and 114-129 -- 26.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 156 BPM
MAMA KIN · BARS 68-69
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 5, 12, 44 and 91.

LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

133 bars across 22 sections: 92 keep time, 4 are fills, 10 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 113-133.

PART B
PART J
PART J
CHORUS
PART J
PART J
OUTRO 2
11 groovesNJFGB+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mama Kin?

156 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Mama Kin hard to play on drums?

37 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Mama Kin?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 5, 12, 44 and 91.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED
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