Bohemian Rhapsody · Queen

120 bars, 7:18, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

RockPopUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
7:18
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 77-82, 85-86 and 88-98 -- 22.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 72 BPM
BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY · BAR 77
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 5, 9, 23, 27, 52, 69 and 6 more.

LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 16 sections: 58 keep time, 12 are fills, 11 are stops and 35 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 78-98.

PART C
PART C
PART S6
PART S8
PART U
PART W
CHORUS
OUTRO
BREAK 6
15 groovesADCS16S8W+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bohemian Rhapsody?

72 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Bohemian Rhapsody hard to play on drums?

55 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 7:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Bohemian Rhapsody?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 5, 9, 23, 27, 52, 69 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED
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