Avon · Queens Of The Stone Age

110 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 3:20 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-19, 22-23 and 26-27, and 13 more places -- 28.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 132 BPM
AVON · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 16, 24, 40, 41, 42, 44 and 15 more.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BARS 40-42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BARS 44-48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

110 bars across 8 sections: 76 keep time, 21 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 54-70.

PART A
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDAGLFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Avon?

132 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 Avon hard to play on drums?

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 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 Avon?

9 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 16, 24, 40, 41, 42, 44 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED
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