Sign Of The Gypsy Queen · April Wine

145 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

RockPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 52% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-8, 10-25 and 27-33, and 14 more places -- 52.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
SIGN OF THE GYPSY QUEEN · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 1, 34, 38, 71, 72, 88 and 2 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 71-72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 88 · LANDS ON BAR 89
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

145 bars across 8 sections: 114 keep time, 8 are fills, 6 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-33.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCOJS7K+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sign Of The Gypsy 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 Sign Of The Gypsy Queen hard to play on drums?

45 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 4:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Sign Of The Gypsy Queen?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 1, 34, 38, 71, 72, 88 and 2 more.

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