Liar · Queen

176 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 8:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPopUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
8:13
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 86-99, 134 and 136-137, and 2 more places -- 14% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 85 BPM
LIAR · BAR 86
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 24 more.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BARS 15-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48
LOOP · 85 BPM
BARS 54-58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

176 bars across 20 sections: 105 keep time, 30 are fills, 19 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 117-133.

PART A
PART I
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AA
PART AE
PART AF
PART AA
14 groovesAAOIAFX+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Liar?

85 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 Liar hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

176 bars, about 8:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 21 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Liar?

10 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 176 BARS ANALYSED
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