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KILLER QUEEN · Skars

EXERCISE 1 OF 20
Groove B -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play KILLER QUEEN on drums

76 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 2:27 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
2:27
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-10, snare through bars 11-12, hi-hat through bars 13-28, snare through bars 29-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-60, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 13-20, and 7 more places -- 75% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 12, 36, 40, 44, 60, 68 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- B -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is KILLER QUEEN?

124 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 KILLER QUEEN hard to play on drums?

45 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 2:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in KILLER QUEEN?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 12, 36, 40, 44, 60, 68 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED