Crazy Little Thing Called Love (Live Aid) · Queen

132 bars of 4/4 at 153 BPM, about 3:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Rock150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
153 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9, and 22 more places -- 19.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 153 BPM
CRAZY LITTLE THING CALLED LOVE (LIVE AID) · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 4, 8, 14, 15, 16, 26 and 17 more.

LOOP · 153 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 153 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 153 BPM
BARS 14-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 153 BPM
BARS 39-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 11 sections: 91 keep time, 23 are fills, 4 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 61-71.

CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART M
PART X
OUTRO 2
9 groovesCPAMV+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Crazy Little Thing Called Love (Live Aid)?

153 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Crazy Little Thing Called Love (Live Aid) hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Crazy Little Thing Called Love (Live Aid)?

8 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 4, 8, 14, 15, 16, 26 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED
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