November Rain · Guns N' Roses

160 bars, 9:09, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

RockJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
9:09
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-28, 43-44 and 47-48, and 9 more places -- 13.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 70 BPM
NOVEMBER RAIN · BAR 68
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 21 and 35 more.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 11 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

160 bars across 16 sections: 78 keep time, 41 are fills, 20 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 71-79.

PART B
PART I
PART E
PART C
PART P
PART H
PART C
PART I
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesAEHICP+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is November Rain?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is November Rain hard to play on drums?

48 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 9:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in November Rain?

15 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 21 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED
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