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Crazy Little Thing Called Love · Queen

EXERCISE 1 OF 10
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBS5AS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 1
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Crazy Little Thing Called Love on drums

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

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
2:39
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-36, snare through bars 37-40, hi-hat through bars 41-60, snare through bars 61-64 and silence through bars 65-74, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 8 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 -- B -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  2. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED