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Nightrain · Guns N' Roses

EXERCISE 13 OF 57
Groove K -- Part K
92 / 163 BARS COVERED
0 / 57 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
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
GROOVE · 20
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 4
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Nightrain on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
55/100

hi-hat through bars 1-3, toms through bars 4-17, snare through bars 18-19, hi-hat through bars 20-33, toms through bars 34-37 and snare through bars 38-39, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    57
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |--------------x-|
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-x---x-|
Nightrain -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- Q, D -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-34 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part K and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 27-35 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 35-55 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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