Brohemian Rhapsody · blink-182

22 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 0:25 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
22
LENGTH
0:25
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-13 and 15-17 -- 31.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 210 BPM
BROHEMIAN RHAPSODY · BAR 12
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 9, 10, 14 and 18.

LOOP · 210 BPM
BARS 9-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

22 bars across 4 sections: 12 keep time, 4 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent.

COUNT-IN
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesHS3AS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Brohemian Rhapsody?

210 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Brohemian Rhapsody hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 86 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

22 bars, about 0:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Brohemian Rhapsody?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 9, 10, 14 and 18.

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