I Can't Live With You · Queen

202 bars at 184 BPM -- fast, and 4:23 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPop150 BPM and up
TEMPO
184 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
202
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14, 16 and 20-23, and 38 more places -- 42.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 184 BPM
I CAN'T LIVE WITH YOU · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 12, 56 and 14 more.

LOOP · 184 BPM
BARS 1-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 184 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 184 BPM
BARS 93-94 · LANDS ON BAR 95 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 184 BPM
BARS 107-108 · LANDS ON BAR 109 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

202 bars across 13 sections: 165 keep time and 20 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 63-92.

PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesFJDPFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Can't Live With You?

184 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is I Can't Live With You hard to play on drums?

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

202 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 I Can't Live With You?

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 12, 56 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 202 BARS ANALYSED
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