Death On Two Legs · Queen

98 bars, 5:17, at 73 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

RockPopUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
73 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
5:17
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 17 and 24, and 9 more places -- 15.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 73 BPM
DEATH ON TWO LEGS · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 5, 9, 19, 22, 23, 25 and 31 more.

LOOP · 73 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 73 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 73 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 73 BPM
BARS 22-23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

98 bars across 13 sections: 30 keep time, 37 are fills, 15 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-15.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART W
PART A
PART W
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
9 groovesCWAES1+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Death On Two Legs?

73 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Death On Two Legs hard to play on drums?

56 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 5:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 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 Death On Two Legs?

15 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 5, 9, 19, 22, 23, 25 and 31 more.

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