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Sign Of The Gypsy Queen · April Wine

EXERCISE 1 OF 31
Groove C -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sign Of The Gypsy Queen on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
45/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-77, ride through bars 78-103, silence through bars 104-112 and hi-hat through bars 113-145.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- C, B -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 26-40 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 77-103 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED