You Could Be Mine · Guns N' Roses

211 bars at 159 BPM -- fast, and 5:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
159 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
211
LENGTH
5:18
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 67-73, 107-113 and 131-132, and 17 more places -- 26.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 159 BPM
YOU COULD BE MINE · BAR 71
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 25 more.

LOOP · 159 BPM
BARS 29-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 159 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 12 TIMES
LOOP · 159 BPM
BARS 129-130 · LANDS ON BAR 131 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 159 BPM
BARS 137-138 · LANDS ON BAR 139 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

211 bars across 15 sections: 129 keep time, 31 are fills and 37 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-28.

PART C
PART J
PART J
PART C
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
6 groovesNCHJM+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is You Could Be Mine?

159 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is You Could Be Mine 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

211 bars, about 5:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 You Could Be Mine?

11 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 211 BARS ANALYSED
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