Stone Cold Crazy · Queen

134 bars at 230 BPM -- fast, and 2:20 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
230 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
2:20
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8, 12 and 16, and 14 more places -- 27.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 230 BPM
STONE COLD CRAZY · BAR 53
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 37, 38, 50, 51, 57, 74 and 6 more.

LOOP · 230 BPM
BARS 37-38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 230 BPM
BARS 50-51 · LANDS ON BAR 52 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 230 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 230 BPM
BARS 74-75 · LANDS ON BAR 76 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

134 bars across 12 sections: 92 keep time, 14 are fills, 12 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-21.

PART A
PART C
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART C
OUTRO
4 groovesFDCAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Stone Cold Crazy?

230 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 Stone Cold Crazy hard to play on drums?

61 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 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 2:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 6 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Stone Cold Crazy?

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 37, 38, 50, 51, 57, 74 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED
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