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Gypsy Queen* · Chris Norman

Gypsy Queen* · Chris Norman
EXERCISE 3 OF 15
Groove C
66 / 74 BARS COVERED
0 / 15 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Gypsy Queen* on drums

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

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
39/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Gypsy Queen* -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part A -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 5 minutes.
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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