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Killer Queen · Queen

EXERCISE 1 OF 27
Groove D -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDHVS6S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Killer Queen on drums

88 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 2:57 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
67/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, silence through bars 3-5, hi-hat through bars 6-49, silence through bars 50-53 and hi-hat through bars 54-88.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 11-12 and 14-16, and 12 more places -- 42.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    6
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------x-----------------------|
Killer Queen -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 1, 22, 23 and 46.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- D, V -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  5. Bars 15-41 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 47-88 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Killer Queen?

117 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 Killer Queen hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 2:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 9 sittings, about 22 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 Killer Queen?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 1, 22, 23 and 46.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED