Emotion Sickness · Queens Of The Stone Age

131 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 4:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-11, 14-15 and 18-21, and 6 more places -- 11.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 122 BPM
EMOTION SICKNESS · BARS 10-11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 27, 28, 37, 43, 57, 58 and 20 more.

LOOP · 122 BPM
BARS 27-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 71 · LANDS ON BAR 72 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

131 bars across 12 sections: 85 keep time, 26 are fills, 4 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-15.

PART C
PART F
PART W
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesRFCAFW+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Emotion Sickness?

122 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 Emotion Sickness hard to play on drums?

52 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Emotion Sickness?

9 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 27, 28, 37, 43, 57, 58 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED
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