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Kings And Queens · 30 Seconds to Mars

EXERCISE 1 OF 36
Groove C -- Outro 2
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COUNT-IN
PART D
PART E
CHORUS
PART K
PART S7
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesGKCDE+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Kings And Queens on drums

99 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 4:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
4:50
DIFFICULTY
73/100

silence through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-14, toms through bars 15-18, hi-hat through bars 19-22, snare through bars 23-38 and hi-hat through bars 39-54, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 9 and 11, and 15 more places -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    7
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-x-------------x---x---|
BD |x---x-x-------x---x-x-x---------|
Kings And Queens -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 26, 38, 40, 42, 46, 54 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- C -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 21-39 -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Kings And Queens?

82 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 Kings And Queens hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 4:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 12 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 Kings And Queens?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 26, 38, 40, 42, 46, 54 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED