Great King Rat · Queen

186 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 7:21 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockProgressive90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
186
LENGTH
7:21
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24-28, 42-47 and 59-64, and 8 more places -- 23.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 100 BPM
GREAT KING RAT · BAR 24
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 22, 31, 41, 50, 54, 58 and 21 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

186 bars across 18 sections: 104 keep time, 27 are fills, 20 are stops and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 150-162.

COUNT-IN
PART E
CHORUS
CHORUS 3
PART X
PART A
PART AE
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
11 groovesHEAXAE+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Great King Rat?

100 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Great King Rat hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how fine the subdivision is the part that decides it. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

186 bars, about 7:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Great King Rat?

13 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 22, 31, 41, 50, 54, 58 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 186 BARS ANALYSED
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