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We Are The Champions · Queen

EXERCISE 1 OF 16
Groove F -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play We Are The Champions on drums

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.

31 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.

TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
31/100

silence through bars 1-14, toms through bars 15-18, ride through bars 19-36, hi-hat through bars 37-49, ride through bars 50-54 and toms through bars 55-58, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----|
BD |x---------x-|
We Are The Champions -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

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 -- F, G -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 14-30 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
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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