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Queen Of The Desert · Aegirson

EXERCISE 1 OF 47
Groove D -- Part D
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0 / 47 PASSED · 24 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
CHORUS
PART B
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesADKTE+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 13
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Queen Of The Desert on drums

146 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
74/100

hi-hat through bars 1-25, ride through bars 26-33, hi-hat through bars 34-47, ride through bars 48-55, hi-hat through bars 56-69 and ride through bars 70-93, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-33, 48-55 and 112-119 -- 16.4% 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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    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
RD |--------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x-------x---x---x---x---x---|
Queen Of The Desert -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 21, 25, 47, 62, 69, 73 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 14-37 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 34-48 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 42-64 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 61-87 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Queen Of The Desert?

140 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 Queen Of The Desert hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 82 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 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 Queen Of The Desert?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 21, 25, 47, 62, 69, 73 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED