We Will Rock You · Queen

41 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 2:00 of playing, on snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPopUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
41
LENGTH
2:00
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 100% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-41 -- 100% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 82 BPM
WE WILL ROCK YOU · BAR 1
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

41 bars: 41 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-41.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is We Will Rock You?

82 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Will Rock You hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

41 bars, about 2:00 at the written tempo. The course takes it in a single sitting of 3 exercises.

What do I need on the kit?

snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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