Nightrain · Guns N' Roses

163 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 56-60, 62-68 and 110-115, and 7 more places -- 23.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
NIGHTRAIN · BAR 57
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 1, 79, 132, 156 and 163.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 79 · LANDS ON BAR 80
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 132 · LANDS ON BAR 133 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 163
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

163 bars across 13 sections: 134 keep time, 5 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 111-131.

PART D
PART K
PART D
CHORUS
PART S
PART Y
CHORUS 2
10 groovesQDSMK+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Nightrain?

150 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 Nightrain hard to play on drums?

55 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

163 bars, about 4:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Nightrain?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 1, 79, 132, 156 and 163.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 163 BARS ANALYSED
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