Another Love Song · Queens Of The Stone Age

105 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 2:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
2:52
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-17, 19-23 and 27-28, and 6 more places -- 35.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 146 BPM
ANOTHER LOVE SONG · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 9, 24, 25, 29, 45, 46 and 13 more.

LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 146 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 146 BPM
BARS 45-47 · LANDS ON BAR 48 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 5 sections: 81 keep time, 19 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-44.

PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEMLBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Another Love Song?

146 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 Another Love Song hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 2:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 9 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Another Love Song?

8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 9, 24, 25, 29, 45, 46 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED
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