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Play The Game · Queen

EXERCISE 15 OF 38
Join Part H to Chorus 3 (bars 20-22)
39 / 70 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, CHORUS 3
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART N
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBNACHS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Play The Game on drums

70 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 3:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
49/100

ride through bars 3-5, hi-hat through bars 6-37, kick and crashes through bars 38-42, toms through bars 43-44, hi-hat through bars 45-68 and kick and crashes through bars 69-70.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 10, and 7 more places -- 23.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--x-oxx-x-x-oxx-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Play The Game -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 7, 9, 15, 21, 29, 40 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D (a two-bar phrase), N -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 15-22 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 20-38 -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 40-51 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Play The Game?

78 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 Play The Game hard to play on drums?

49 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

70 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Play The Game?

8 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 7, 9, 15, 21, 29, 40 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 70 BARS ANALYSED