Spread Your Wings · Queen

98 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 4:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPopUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
4:33
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 62% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-16, 20-22 and 24-29, and 13 more places -- 61.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 86 BPM
SPREAD YOUR WINGS · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 23, 44, 57, 66, 73, 80 and 1 more.

LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58
LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

98 bars across 5 sections: 84 keep time, 7 are fills, 3 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 24-41.

PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCBJS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Spread Your Wings?

86 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 Spread Your Wings hard to play on drums?

46 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?

98 bars, about 4:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Spread Your Wings?

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 23, 44, 57, 66, 73, 80 and 1 more.

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