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Mr. Brownstone · Guns N' Roses

EXERCISE 12 OF 31
Fill at bar 18, 26, 41 and 3 more (a small one)
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0 / 31 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, PART L
PART B
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFLBDH+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mr. Brownstone on drums

95 bars of 4/4 at a walking 109 BPM, 3:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
109 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
62/100

toms through bars 1-10, ride through bars 11-14, hi-hat through bars 15-18, ride through bars 19-22, hi-hat through bars 23-26 and ride through bars 27-29, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-17, 23-25 and 35-40, and 2 more places -- 22.1% 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 |xxxx-xxxxxoo-xxx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x---x--x-----|
HF |------------x---|
Mr. Brownstone -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 18, 26, 34, 41, 50, 57 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- F -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E, C -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part B -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 60-73 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 68-89 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Mr. Brownstone?

109 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 Mr. Brownstone hard to play on drums?

62 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 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Mr. Brownstone?

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 18, 26, 34, 41, 50, 57 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 95 BARS ANALYSED