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Spread Your Wings · Queen

EXERCISE 15 OF 25
Join Outro to Outro 2 (bars 43-45)
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PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCBJS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Spread Your Wings on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
4:33
DIFFICULTY
46/100

hi-hat through bars 3-30, ride through bars 31-33, hi-hat through bars 34-73, ride through bars 74-76 and hi-hat through bars 77-98.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 40-45 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 9 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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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