Hammer To Fall · Queen

139 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 4:19 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
4:19
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-17 and 26-36, and 11 more places -- 29.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 128 BPM
HAMMER TO FALL · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 37, 53, 54, 55, 63, 76 and 11 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 53-55 · LANDS ON BAR 56 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 63 · LANDS ON BAR 64
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 76-77 · LANDS ON BAR 78 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

139 bars across 18 sections: 96 keep time, 18 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-36.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART K
PART Q
PART T
PART X
PART H
PART F
CHORUS 4
12 groovesCFQXT+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hammer To Fall?

128 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 Hammer To Fall hard to play on drums?

49 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 4:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Hammer To Fall?

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 37, 53, 54, 55, 63, 76 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED
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