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First It Giveth · Queens Of The Stone Age

EXERCISE 15 OF 24
Groove H -- Part H (a two-bar phrase)
152 / 178 BARS COVERED
0 / 24 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, OUTRO 2
PART A
CHORUS
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEAHS4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play First It Giveth on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
213 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
65/100

ride through bars 1-48, toms through bars 49-80, hi-hat through bars 81-88, silence through bars 89-96, ride through bars 97-120 and toms through bars 121-176, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    49
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
SD |--------x-------|
FT |--x-x-------x-x-|
BD |x-----x---x-----|
HF |x---x---x---x---|
First It Giveth -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- E, A -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
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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