Somebody To Love · Queen

177 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 120 BPM, 4:25 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
4:25
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 59% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-30, 33 and 36-38, and 16 more places -- 59.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
SOMEBODY TO LOVE · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 18, 31, 32, 34, 35, 39 and 19 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 34-35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 39-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

177 bars across 8 sections: 117 keep time, 25 are fills, 2 are stops and 28 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 118-141.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART P
OUTRO
6 groovesDPS1S5S7+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Somebody To Love?

120 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Somebody To Love hard to play on drums?

48 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

177 bars, about 4:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Somebody To Love?

7 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 18, 31, 32, 34, 35, 39 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 177 BARS ANALYSED
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