LA Queen · Dead Poet Society

122 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 3:18 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-37, 39-41 and 59-74, and 3 more places -- 45.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 148 BPM
LA QUEEN · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 22, 38, 42, 50, 58, 75 and 8 more.

LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

122 bars across 10 sections: 61 keep time, 14 are fills, 36 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-21.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDBWRG+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is LA Queen?

148 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 LA Queen hard to play on drums?

52 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 LA Queen?

11 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 22, 38, 42, 50, 58, 75 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED
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