God Save The Queen · Motörhead

119 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 3:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

RockMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 3, 5-11 and 13-27, and 4 more places -- 34.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 148 BPM
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN · BARS 5-6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 1, 2, 44, 76, 116 and 117.

LOOP · 148 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

119 bars across 6 sections: 103 keep time, 6 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-27.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO
3 groovesBEFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is God Save The Queen?

148 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 God Save The Queen 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 God Save The Queen?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 1, 2, 44, 76, 116 and 117.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED
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