Who Wants To Live Forever · Queen

46 bars, 2:35, at 71 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare and kick and nothing else.

RockPopUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
71 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
46
LENGTH
2:35
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6-12 and 32-34 -- 30.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 71 BPM
WHO WANTS TO LIVE FOREVER · BARS 6-7
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 19, 26, 44, 45 and 46.

LOOP · 71 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20
LOOP · 71 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 71 BPM
BARS 44-46 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

46 bars across 7 sections: 21 keep time, 5 are fills, 1 is a stop and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-12.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
PART J
CHORUS 2
BREAK
OUTRO
6 groovesCJS6FS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Who Wants To Live Forever?

71 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 Who Wants To Live Forever hard to play on drums?

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

46 bars, about 2:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Who Wants To Live Forever?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 19, 26, 44, 45 and 46.

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