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Somebody To Love · Queen

EXERCISE 5 OF 29
Groove P -- Part P
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0 / 29 PASSED · 22 BARS LIT · IN THE PART P
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART P
OUTRO
6 groovesDPS1S5S7+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Somebody To Love on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
4:25
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-18, hi-hat through bars 19-110, silence through bars 111-116, toms through bars 117-138, hi-hat through bars 139-141 and silence through bars 142-148, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    20
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |x-x-x-o-x-x-|
SD |------x-----|
BD |x---x-----x-|
Somebody To Love -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 60-67 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 69-160 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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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