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Do It Again · Queens Of The Stone Age

EXERCISE 1 OF 27
Groove B -- Chorus
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0 / 27 PASSED · 38 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBEKMHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Do It Again on drums

97 bars of 4/4 at 133 BPM, about 2:55 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
2:55
DIFFICULTY
65/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, toms through bars 3-30, ride through bars 31-40, toms through bars 41-60, ride through bars 61-76 and snare through bars 77-97.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7-13 and 15-25, and 3 more places -- 39.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    7
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
SD |------f-----------f-----|
T1 |----------x-------------|
FT |-----------x------------|
BD |x--x--------x--x--------|
HF |x-----------x-----------|
Do It Again -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 68, 76 and 97.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- B, E -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Bars 39-45 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through Part E and the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Do It Again?

133 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Do It Again hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

97 bars, about 2:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Do It Again?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 68, 76 and 97.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED