First It Giveth · Queens Of The Stone Age

178 bars at 213 BPM -- fast, and 3:21 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
213 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-55, 57-63 and 65-71, and 9 more places -- 42.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 213 BPM
FIRST IT GIVETH · BAR 49
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 40, 48 and 18 more.

LOOP · 213 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 213 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 213 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 213 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 7 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

178 bars across 6 sections: 143 keep time, 24 are fills and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-7.

PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEAHS4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is First It Giveth?

213 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is First It Giveth hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

178 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 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 First It Giveth?

6 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 40, 48 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 178 BARS ANALYSED
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