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Domesticated Animals · Queens Of The Stone Age

EXERCISE 6 OF 23
Groove E -- Part E
33 / 98 BARS COVERED
0 / 23 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, PART D
CHORUS
PART S2
PART E
PART D
PART G
PART K
PART D
PART G
OUTRO
BREAK
7 groovesS10AGS2D+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Domesticated Animals on drums

98 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 4:48 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
4:48
DIFFICULTY
40/100

toms through bars 1-9, silence through bars 10-22, hi-hat through bars 23-60, toms through bars 61-66 and silence through bars 67-98.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-24, 27-28 and 30-33, and 2 more places -- 20.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    23
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a7e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x-----x-------x-|
BD |x-------x-----x-------x-----|
Domesticated Animals -- 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 60, 63 and 64.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- D, G -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Bars 23-35 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part G and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 46-63 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Domesticated Animals?

117 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 Domesticated Animals hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 4:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Domesticated Animals?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 60, 63 and 64.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED