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Spicy Queen · Hanabie

EXERCISE 5 OF 99
Fill at bar 2 (a small one)
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0 / 99 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART F
PART F
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AD
PART AH
PART AS
CHORUS 3
PART S21
CHORUS 4
19 groovesHAHADASS+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 23
LAND · 23
RUN · 3
JOIN · 17
LINK · 1
SECTION · 15
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Spicy Queen on drums

153 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 3:52 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
65/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, toms through bars 3-4, hi-hat through bars 5-8, snare through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32 and snare through bars 33-42, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-10, 13-15 and 45-47, and 4 more places -- 16.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    45
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x--x----x--x|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Spicy Queen -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

23 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 16, 17, 18 and 45 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 75 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 -- H, AD -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AS -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part F and the Break -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part Q -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part Q and Part S -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 27-33 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part U -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Spicy Queen?

158 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Spicy Queen hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

153 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 75 exercises over 20 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Spicy Queen?

23 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 16, 17, 18 and 45 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED