Dragon Attack · Queen

96 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 4:19 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockPopUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
4:19
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 85% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-61 and 76-96 -- 85.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 88 BPM
DRAGON ATTACK · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

96 bars across 5 sections: 91 keep time and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-61.

VERSE
CHORUS
OUTRO
VERSE 2
4 groovesBCES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dragon Attack?

88 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Dragon Attack hard to play on drums?

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 4:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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