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November Rain (Standard Tuning) · Guns N' Roses

EXERCISE 25 OF 75
Join Part I to Part C (bars 48-50)
90 / 160 BARS COVERED
0 / 75 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I, PART C
PART B
PART I
PART E
PART I
PART C
PART M
PART H
PART C
PART I
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesACHICM+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 12
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play November Rain (Standard Tuning) on drums

160 bars, 8:39, at 74 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
8:39
DIFFICULTY
40/100

silence through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-21, hi-hat through bars 22-29, ride through bars 30-41, hi-hat through bars 42-49 and ride through bars 50-64, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
November Rain (Standard Tuning) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 21 and 37 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 60 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 -- I, H -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 7-31 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 18-49 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and Part C -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part C and Part M -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 59-84 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Bars 81-101 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is November Rain (Standard Tuning)?

74 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 (Standard Tuning) hard to play on drums?

40 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 8:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 13 sittings, about 28 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 (Standard Tuning)?

14 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 21 and 37 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED