We Are The Champions · Queen

92 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 93 BPM, 2:58 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPop90 to 119 BPMShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
31/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-20, 23 and 26, and 9 more places -- 38.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 93 BPM
WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 16, 17, 18, 25, 35, 56 and 6 more.

LOOP · 93 BPM
BARS 16-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

92 bars across 9 sections: 52 keep time, 12 are fills, 8 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 83-91.

COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART G
CHORUS
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFGS1AS2+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is We Are The Champions?

93 BPM, in 3/4, 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 We Are The Champions hard to play on drums?

31 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 2:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 We Are The Champions?

2 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 16, 17, 18, 25, 35, 56 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED
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