Crazy Little Thing Called Love · Queen

103 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 2:39 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop150 BPM and upShuffle / tripletBeginner
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
2:39
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 81% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-14, 17-27 and 29-35, and 3 more places -- 81.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 155 BPM
CRAZY LITTLE THING CALLED LOVE · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 6 times: bars 37, 38, 39, 61, 62 and 63.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 37-39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

103 bars across 6 sections: 78 keep time, 6 are fills, 3 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-35.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBS5AS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Crazy Little Thing Called Love?

155 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 Crazy Little Thing Called Love 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 2:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 2 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Crazy Little Thing Called Love?

1 fill to learn, played 6 times: bars 37, 38, 39, 61, 62 and 63.

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