Innuendo · Queen

156 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 7:27 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

RockPopUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
7:27
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-13, 15-17 and 19-21, and 16 more places -- 40.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 80 BPM
INNUENDO · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 28, 48, 110, 111, 112, 118 and 7 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

156 bars across 8 sections: 93 keep time, 13 are fills, 3 are stops and 41 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 131-155.

PART B
CHORUS
PART S3
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDS3KMB+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Innuendo?

80 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 Innuendo hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how fine the subdivision is the part that decides it. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 7:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Innuendo?

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 28, 48, 110, 111, 112, 118 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED
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