Broken Box · Queens Of The Stone Age

98 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:00 of playing, on crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 70% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-12 and 14-20, and 16 more places -- 70.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BROKEN BOX · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 37 and 90.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

98 bars: 96 keep time and 2 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 38-89.

OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Broken Box?

130 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 Broken Box hard to play on drums?

47 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 3 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Broken Box?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 37 and 90.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED
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