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I Want It All · Queen

EXERCISE 1 OF 38
Groove G -- Chorus
0 / 107 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 40 BARS LIT
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART L
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGBQLA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Want It All on drums

107 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 4:39 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
4:39
DIFFICULTY
57/100

hi-hat through bars 1-20, ride through bars 21-32, hi-hat through bars 33-40, ride through bars 41-58, hi-hat through bars 59-60 and ride through bars 61-70, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 25-31 and 41-43, and 5 more places -- 37.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    21
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
RD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------x-----------------------|
I Want It All -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 40, 44, 60, 69, 93, 105 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- G, B -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 51-75 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is I Want It All?

92 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 I Want It All hard to play on drums?

57 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 4:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Want It All?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 40, 44, 60, 69, 93, 105 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED