Go With The Flow · Queens Of The Stone Age

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.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
159 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

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.

LOOP · 159 BPM
GO WITH THE FLOW · BAR 99
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

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

LOOP · 159 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 159 BPM
BAR 98 · LANDS ON BAR 99
LOOP · 159 BPM
BAR 106 · LANDS ON BAR 107 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

122 bars across 2 sections: 114 keep time, 5 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-49.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesCAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Go With The Flow?

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 hard to play on drums?

56 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?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED
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