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Used To Love Her­­ · Guns N' Roses

EXERCISE 10 OF 21
Join Part A to Part C (bars 3-5)
101 / 104 BARS COVERED
0 / 21 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, PART C
PART A
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEICAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Used To Love Her­­ on drums

104 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 3:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
54/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-40, ride through bars 41-55, hi-hat through bars 56-72, ride through bars 73-87 and hi-hat through bars 88-104.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 25-31, and 2 more places -- 33.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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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-------|
Used To Love Her­­ -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 40, 44, 48 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- E, I -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 3-44 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Used To Love Her­­?

134 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 Used To Love Her­­ hard to play on drums?

54 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 4 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Used To Love Her­­?

2 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 40, 44, 48 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED