A Kind Of Magic · Queen

144 bars of 4/4 at 131 BPM, about 4:24 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

RockPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-31, 33-35 and 37-40, and 27 more places -- 53.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 131 BPM
A KIND OF MAGIC · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 5 times: bars 70, 76, 115, 129 and 133.

LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 70 · LANDS ON BAR 71 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

144 bars across 10 sections: 126 keep time, 5 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-44.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCEBAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Kind Of Magic?

131 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 A Kind Of Magic hard to play on drums?

46 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?

144 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in A Kind Of Magic?

1 fill to learn, played 5 times: bars 70, 76, 115, 129 and 133.

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