Learn to play Another One Bites The Dust by Queen on Drums
Featuring your favorite songs, Melodics creates bite-sized lessons that level up your skills on the drums.
Follow our step by step breakdown of Another One Bites The Dust to listen to every part and learn how to play it yourself. Want to take your skills even further? Download the Melodics app where you can access hundreds of lessons, track every hit and measure your improvement.
Artist Biography
Queen, led by the iconic Freddie Mercury, remains one of the most influential rock bands in history. "Another One Bites The Dust" features a memorable bassline and a powerful drum groove, demonstrating the drummer's ability to create an infectious rhythm that has stood the test of time. Queen's drummer played a pivotal role in shaping the band's signature sound.
Learn the hi-hat
Start with a basic 1/8 note groove on the hi-hat.
Add the kick
Now add the kicks on beat 1 and 3.
Add the snare
Now add the snare on beat 2 and 4 to complete the backbeat groove.
Play the track
Now continue the backbeat groove to play the whole track.
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FAQs
- Queen's Another One Bites The Dust is a great song for intermediate and advanced drummers to play. Download Melodics to break down the song and play other lessons and songs for all skill levels.
- Solid and steady groove throughout the song, emphasizing the iconic bass line, accurate use of accents and fills to highlight key sections of the song, coordination to synchronize with the rest of the band's tight rhythm and tempo changes.
- Another One Bites The Dust is 110 bpm.
- Another One Bites The Dust is in 4/4 time signature.
- Another One Bites The Dust is in F minor.
You can navigate to where Songs are in Melodics via the [Explore] >[Songs] section of the app.
Anyone with Melodics and a MIDI drums, keys or pads instrument can browse and audio preview any song in the catalog for free. Currently, you must have a subscription for a Melodics Songs plan in order to access the learning and playing component of Songs lesson content.
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- For Standard Tier subscribers (post September 1st 2022) and Melodics free users: Check out Melodics’ plans to upgrade to Songs, visit melodics.com/plans
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Melodics launched Songs on September 1st, 2022 with 59 songs in the catalog. Across keys, pads and drums instruments, with multiple levels of difficulty for each song, that’s over 200 distinct lessons for songs to play, plus 1500+ lessons, exercises, courses and a Guided Path to get your skills up to speed!
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Songs are only available to Premium plan subscribers. As a free user you can preview songs and hear how they sound by hitting the lesson audio preview. If you’d like an idea of how learning songs with Melodics can benefit your broader musical journey, check out our article on navigating your learning journey.