Rocket Queen · Guns N' Roses

174 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 6:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
174
LENGTH
6:03
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-22, 28-30 and 42-44, and 3 more places -- 20.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 114 BPM
ROCKET QUEEN · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 23, 27, 31, 40, 41, 45 and 15 more.

LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

174 bars across 15 sections: 132 keep time, 22 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 116-145.

VERSE
PART H
PART H
PART D
VERSE 5
PART O
CHORUS
OUTRO
7 groovesBUHDT+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rocket Queen?

114 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 Rocket Queen hard to play on drums?

61 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 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

174 bars, about 6:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Rocket Queen?

6 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 23, 27, 31, 40, 41, 45 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 174 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Guns N' Roses drum parts

EVERY GUNS N' ROSES CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →