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Patience Live · Guns N' Roses

EXERCISE 37 OF 37
Play the whole song with the record
116 / 149 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 149 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART A
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDCMS1A+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Patience Live on drums

149 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:58 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
4:58
DIFFICULTY
37/100

silence through bars 1-25, snare through bars 26-41, ride through bars 42-61, snare through bars 62-77 and ride through bars 78-149.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 48-49, 56-61 and 84-85, and 4 more places -- 22% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    48               49
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|x---x-----------|
SD |--------r-------|----------------|
T1 |----------------|--------x-------|
T2 |----------------|----------x-----|
FT |----------------|------------x---|
BD |x-------------x-|--x-x-----------|
Patience Live -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 99, 121, 126, 130, 134, 138 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- D, C -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 38-91 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 88-104 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Bars 101-130 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Patience Live?

120 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 Patience Live hard to play on drums?

37 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 4:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Patience Live?

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 99, 121, 126, 130, 134, 138 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED