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Hammer To Fall · Queen

EXERCISE 18 OF 61
Groove L
100 / 139 BARS COVERED
0 / 61 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, PART Q, CHORUS 4
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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 12
LINK · 8
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hammer To Fall on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
4:19
DIFFICULTY
49/100

snare through bars 2-5, hi-hat through bars 6-75, toms through bars 76-83, hi-hat through bars 84-101, snare through bars 102-103 and hi-hat through bars 104-134, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- C, F -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 24-50 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 47-63 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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