Another One Bites the Dust · Queen

78 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:36 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
2:36
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 88% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-18, 20-44 and 50-60, and 1 more place -- 88.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

78 bars across 4 sections: 74 keep time and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-44.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBAS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Another One Bites the Dust?

120 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 hard to play on drums?

51 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 2:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 3 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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