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Battery Acid · Queens Of The Stone Age

EXERCISE 9 OF 24
Groove F (a two-bar phrase)
111 / 137 BARS COVERED
0 / 24 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCEHBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Battery Acid on drums

137 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 5:39 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.

TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
5:39
DIFFICULTY
43/100

toms through bars 2-5, hi-hat through bars 6-47, toms through bars 48-49, hi-hat through bars 50-51, toms through bars 52-53 and hi-hat through bars 54-55, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-23, 28-39 and 44-47, and 4 more places -- 47.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |----------x-----|
HH |--o---o-------o-|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |--x---x---x---x-|
HF |x---x---x---x---|
Battery Acid -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 137.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- C, H -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 60-94 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 88-111 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Battery Acid?

97 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 Battery Acid hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 5:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Battery Acid?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 137.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED