God Save The Queen · Sex Pistols

109 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 2:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkRock150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
2:52
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37, 39 and 42, and 7 more places -- 19.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 152 BPM
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN · BAR 42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 36, 44, 54 and 5 more.

LOOP · 152 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 11 sections: 80 keep time, 11 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-27.

PART B
PART F
PART H
PART F
PART H
PART K
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesLFHKBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is God Save The Queen?

152 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?

57 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?

109 bars, about 2:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 God Save The Queen?

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 36, 44, 54 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED
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