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Welcome To The Jungle · Guns N' Roses

EXERCISE 3 OF 54
Groove M -- Outro 2 (a two-bar phrase)
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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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 12
LINK · 3
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Welcome To The Jungle on drums

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.

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
103 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
5:18
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-12, toms through bars 13-14, hi-hat through bars 15-28, snare through bars 29-32 and hi-hat through bars 33-42, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-g-o-g-o-g-o-g-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|
HF |--x---x---x---x-|
Welcome To The Jungle -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- J, O -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part D -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Bars 13-33 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 9-26 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 40-69 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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