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Kings and Queens · Aerosmith

EXERCISE 11 OF 39
Groove D
126 / 160 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Kings and Queens on drums

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

33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
5:20
DIFFICULTY
33/100

snare through bars 1-60, toms through bars 61-62, snare through bars 63-97, silence through bars 98-106, snare through bars 107-108 and ride through bars 109-124, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    78
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |x-------x-------|
BD |----x-x---x-----|
HF |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

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- M, E, S -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-63 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part E and Part A -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Bars 50-77 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 95-129 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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