Mississippi Queen · Mountain

87 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 2:29 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
2:29
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 9 and 11, and 19 more places -- 34.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
MISSISSIPPI QUEEN · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 30, 54 and 78.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

87 bars across 6 sections: 73 keep time, 3 are fills and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-29.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCGKS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mississippi Queen?

140 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 Mississippi Queen hard to play on drums?

46 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 2:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Mississippi Queen?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 30, 54 and 78.

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