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The Show Must Go On · Queen

EXERCISE 5 OF 29
Groove T -- Part T
43 / 83 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART T
PART S2
PART A
PART J
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART T
8 groovesKJAS2T+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Show Must Go On on drums

83 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 3:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
68/100

silence through bars 1-13, hi-hat through bars 14-61, ride through bars 62-65, hi-hat through bars 66-72 and ride through bars 73-83.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23, 25 and 32-36, and 8 more places -- 34.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    23
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---x---o---x---x---x---o---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x-----------x---|
HF |----------g---------------g-----|
The Show Must Go On -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 30 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- K -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 14-35 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 55-75 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The Show Must Go On?

84 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 The Show Must Go On hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 8 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 The Show Must Go On?

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 30 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED