So Fine · Guns N' Roses

85 bars, 4:51, 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.

RockMetalUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
4:51
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 38-44, 46-50 and 61-67, and 1 more place -- 28.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 70 BPM
SO FINE · BARS 38-39
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 5, 9, 17, 21, 29, 33 and 9 more.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

85 bars across 8 sections: 60 keep time, 15 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-16.

PART A
PART F
PART I
CHORUS
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesOIDFA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is So Fine?

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 So Fine hard to play on drums?

57 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 4:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 7 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 So Fine?

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 5, 9, 17, 21, 29, 33 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED
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