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So Fine · Guns N' Roses

EXERCISE 29 OF 40
Join Chorus to Part D (bars 52-54)
80 / 85 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART D
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play So Fine on drums

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.

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
4:51
DIFFICULTY
57/100

hi-hat through bars 2-17, ride through bars 18-21, hi-hat through bars 22-29, ride through bars 30-52, hi-hat through bars 53-60 and ride through bars 61-75, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    38               39
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
RD |----x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|--x-----x-x-----|
So Fine -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- O, D -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-30 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 50-64 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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