Queen (TV Size) · Lisa

48 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 1:22 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
48
LENGTH
1:22
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 13-19 and 21-24 -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
QUEEN (TV SIZE) · BAR 5
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 28, 36, 40 and 48.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 48
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

48 bars across 9 sections: 25 keep time, 4 are fills, 10 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-24.

COUNT-IN
INTRO
PART C
CHORUS
PART E
PART G
OUTRO
7 groovesBGCES1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Queen (TV Size)?

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 Queen (TV Size) hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

48 bars, about 1:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 (TV Size)?

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 28, 36, 40 and 48.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 48 BARS ANALYSED
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