Welcome To The Jungle · Guns N' Roses

137 bars of 4/4 at a walking 103 BPM, 5:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
5:18
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-21, 23-25 and 33-35, and 3 more places -- 13.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 103 BPM
WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 13, 14, 18, 22, 28, 32 and 17 more.

LOOP · 103 BPM
BARS 13-14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 79 · LANDS ON BAR 80

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

137 bars across 15 sections: 80 keep time, 23 are fills, 16 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 102-112.

CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesJABHMV+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Welcome To The Jungle?

103 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 Welcome To The Jungle 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 5:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 14 sittings, about 23 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 Welcome To The Jungle?

7 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 13, 14, 18, 22, 28, 32 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED
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