White Queen (As It Began) · Queen

73 bars, 4:00, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

RockPopUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-17, 41-42 and 45 -- 10.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 72 BPM
WHITE QUEEN (AS IT BEGAN) · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 24, 25, 28, 32, 33, 59 and 6 more.

LOOP · 72 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 72 BPM
BARS 32-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 72 BPM
BARS 59-60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

73 bars across 8 sections: 41 keep time, 12 are fills, 8 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-12.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART C
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesAYGCS+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is White Queen (As It Began)?

72 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is White Queen (As It Began) hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how fine the subdivision is the part that decides it. The beat itself is 10 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 White Queen (As It Began)?

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 24, 25, 28, 32, 33, 59 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED
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