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White Queen · queen

EXERCISE 28 OF 39
Join Part S6 to Outro (bars 83-85)
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0 / 39 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S6, OUTRO
PART A
PART S3
PART S6
OUTRO
7 groovesOS3S6AK+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
JOIN · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play White Queen on drums

168 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:35 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
5:35
DIFFICULTY
39/100

silence through bars 1-10, toms through bars 11-14, silence through bars 15-29, toms through bars 30-46, hi-hat through bars 47-57 and toms through bars 58-61, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 88, 90 and 92, and 10 more places -- 9.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    90
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----x-----|
BD |x-----x--x-----x-----x--|
White Queen -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 29, 34, 42, 44, 46, 58 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- P, K -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part S3 and Part K -- 9 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 51-85 -- 9 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part S6 and the Outro -- 8 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is White Queen?

120 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 White Queen hard to play on drums?

39 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

168 bars, about 5:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 White Queen?

11 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 29, 34, 42, 44, 46, 58 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 168 BARS ANALYSED