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God Save The Queen · Sex Pistols

EXERCISE 1 OF 42
Groove K -- Part K
0 / 109 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 21 BARS LIT
PART B
PART F
PART H
CHORUS
PART F
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesLFHKBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play God Save The Queen on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
2:52
DIFFICULTY
57/100

snare through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-36, ride through bars 37-44, hi-hat through bars 45-62, ride through bars 63-105 and snare through bars 106-109.

The beat

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.

    42
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |----x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
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

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- K, L -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 25-43 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 39-55 -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Bars 51-72 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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