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Queen Bitch · David Bowie

EXERCISE 9 OF 19
Run D1 · Part D (bars 4-26)
92 / 104 BARS COVERED
0 / 19 PASSED · 23 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesGDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Queen Bitch on drums

104 bars of 4/4 at 137 BPM, about 3:02 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
3:02
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-104.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10 and 12, and 22 more places -- 34.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x---x-x-----x-|
Queen Bitch -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 25, 26, 57, 58, 59 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- D, G -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through Part D and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Queen Bitch?

137 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 Queen Bitch hard to play on drums?

58 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 3:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Queen Bitch?

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 25, 26, 57, 58, 59 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED