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Go With The Flow (E Standard) · Queens Of The Stone Age

EXERCISE 1 OF 15
Groove A -- Outro 2
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OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesCAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Go With The Flow (E Standard) on drums

122 bars at 159 BPM -- fast, and 3:04 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
159 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
52/100

snare through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-6, snare through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-34, toms through bars 35-51 and hi-hat through bars 52-82, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 37-38 and 41-42, and 9 more places -- 29.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Go With The Flow (E Standard) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 2, 50, 98, 106 and 114.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- A, C -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H (a two-bar phrase) -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Go With The Flow (E Standard)?

159 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 Go With The Flow (E Standard) 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Go With The Flow (E Standard)?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 2, 50, 98, 106 and 114.

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