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God Save The Queen · Motörhead

EXERCISE 11 OF 28
Join Part E to Chorus 2 (bars 40-42)
105 / 119 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO
3 groovesBEFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play God Save The Queen on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
56/100

snare through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-36, ride through bars 37-44, hi-hat through bars 45-68, ride through bars 69-76 and hi-hat through bars 77-85, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5                6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o-o-o-o-o-o-|o-o-o-o-o-o-o---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x-xx|
BD |x-------x-x-----|x-----x---x-----|
God Save The Queen -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E, G -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Bars 41-99 -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part E and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 87-118 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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