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Crazy Little Thing Called Love (Live Aid) · Queen

EXERCISE 20 OF 48
Fill at bar 58 (a small one)
80 / 132 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART N
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART P
PART M
PART X
OUTRO 2
9 groovesCPAMV+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 4
JOIN · 9
LINK · 1
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Crazy Little Thing Called Love (Live Aid) on drums

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.

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
153 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
79/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-38, snare through bars 39-40, hi-hat through bars 41-52, ride through bars 53-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-63, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|
HH |---x--o-----f-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x--x--------|
HF |---------------x-----x--|
Crazy Little Thing Called Love (Live Aid) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D, M -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part A -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 46-57 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part N and Part P -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part P -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and Part V -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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