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Hanging Tree · Queens Of The Stone Age

EXERCISE 5 OF 23
Groove C
64 / 129 BARS COVERED
0 / 23 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hanging Tree on drums

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.

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
209 BPM
TIME
5/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
52/100

toms through bars 3-10, hi-hat through bars 11-26, snare through bars 27-28, ride through bars 29-44, snare through bars 45-48 and toms through bars 49-52, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    30
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |------x-----x-----xx|
BD |x---x-----x-----x---|
Hanging Tree -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- H, D -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 23-86 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 87-98 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED