Another One Bites The Dust (Live At Wembley, 1986) · Queen

130 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 4:23 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8, 10 and 14-17, and 26 more places -- 41.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 118 BPM
ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST (LIVE AT WEMBLEY, 1986) · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 41, 51 and 15 more.

LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52
LOOP · 118 BPM
BARS 54-55 · LANDS ON BAR 56 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

130 bars across 12 sections: 91 keep time, 21 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 66-81.

PART F
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART F
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGEFHS2+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Another One Bites The Dust (Live At Wembley, 1986)?

118 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 Another One Bites The Dust (Live At Wembley, 1986) hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Another One Bites The Dust (Live At Wembley, 1986)?

9 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 41, 51 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED
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