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Fat Bottomed Girls · Queen

EXERCISE 23 OF 23
Play the whole song with the record
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COUNT-IN
PART B
PART C
CHORUS
BREAK
BREAK 2
OUTRO
6 groovesECBS1S5+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fat Bottomed Girls on drums

76 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 3:29 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-20, hi-hat through bars 21-28, snare through bars 29-38, silence through bars 39-41 and toms through bars 42-43, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-31, 33-37 and 45-50, and 3 more places -- 54.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    29
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x-x--x--x--x-|
Fat Bottomed Girls -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 28, 42, 43 and 51.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- E, B -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and Part C -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 20-39 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Break 2 and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Fat Bottomed Girls?

86 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 Fat Bottomed Girls hard to play on drums?

48 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Fat Bottomed Girls?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 28, 42, 43 and 51.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED