Kings and Queens · Aerosmith

160 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:20 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
5:20
DIFFICULTY
33/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 77-79, 81-87 and 89-93, and 5 more places -- 28.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
KINGS AND QUEENS · BAR 78
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 60, 61, 62, 76, 125, 126 and 2 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 60-62 · LANDS ON BAR 63 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 125-128 · LANDS ON BAR 129 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

160 bars across 8 sections: 131 keep time, 8 are fills, 4 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-48.

PART A
PART E
PART A
PART C
CHORUS
PART S6
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesMEASC+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Kings and Queens?

120 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 Kings and Queens hard to play on drums?

33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 5:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, high 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 Kings and Queens?

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 60, 61, 62, 76, 125, 126 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED
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