Gypsy Queen* · Chris Norman

74 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 3:13 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 66% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-13, 15-17 and 19-25, and 6 more places -- 66.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 92 BPM
GYPSY QUEEN* · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 34 and 58.

LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

74 bars across 6 sections: 67 keep time and 2 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-27.

PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gypsy Queen*?

92 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 Gypsy Queen* hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Gypsy Queen*?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 34 and 58.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED
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