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I Appear Missing · Queens Of The Stone Age
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EXERCISE 8 OF 24
Groove G
36 / 83 BARS COVERED
0 / 24 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART C
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART P
OUTRO
BREAK
4 groovesES7CPFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Appear Missing on drums

83 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 90 BPM, 5:28 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
5:28
DIFFICULTY
73/100

hi-hat through bars 1-9, snare through bars 10-15, hi-hat through bars 16-28, ride through bars 29-32, snare through bars 33-39 and toms through bars 40-47, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 3-9, 17 and 21-26 -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    3                                                4
    1.......2.......3.......4.......5.......6....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......5.......6.......
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----o-----|x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x---o-|
SD |------------x---------gg------------x-----------|------------x---------gg------------x---------x-|
BD |x-----------------------x---x-----x-----x-------|x-----------------------x---x---x-x-------------|
HF |g-----------------------------------------------|g-----------------------------------------------|
I Appear Missing -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 37 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 20-40 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part P and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is I Appear Missing?

90 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is I Appear Missing hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 5:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 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 I Appear Missing?

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 37 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED