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Tie Your Mother Down · Queen

EXERCISE 1 OF 17
Groove D -- Chorus
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDAS1S2S9+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 1
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tie Your Mother Down on drums

121 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:35 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-34, kick and crashes through bars 35-40, hi-hat through bars 41-60, snare through bars 61-66 and hi-hat through bars 67-96, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-19, and 14 more places -- 65.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    9
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--x-----x--x--x-----x--|
Tie Your Mother Down -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 28, 97, 98, 119 and 120.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- D -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 90-106 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Tie Your Mother Down?

135 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 Tie Your Mother Down hard to play on drums?

52 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 3 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Tie Your Mother Down?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 28, 97, 98, 119 and 120.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED