Another One Bites the Dust · Queen

98 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 3:28 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockPop90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 94% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-18, 20-38 and 40-64, and 2 more places -- 93.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 112 BPM
ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 97 and 98.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BARS 97-98 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

98 bars across 4 sections: 91 keep time, 2 are fills and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-65.

CHORUS
OUTRO
3 groovesBS3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Another One Bites the Dust?

112 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 3:28 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.

How many fills are in Another One Bites the Dust?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 97 and 98.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED
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