Hanging Tree · Queens Of The Stone Age

129 bars of 5/4 -- not four -- at 209 BPM, 3:04 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
209 BPM
TIME
5/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-44 and 72-86 -- 29.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 209 BPM
HANGING TREE · BAR 30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 52 and 94.

LOOP · 209 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 10 sections: 89 keep time, 2 are fills, 1 is a stop and 27 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-25.

CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBHS10JF+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hanging Tree?

209 BPM, in 5/4, 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 Hanging Tree 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 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 Hanging Tree?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 52 and 94.

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