I Sat By The Ocean · Queens Of The Stone Age

112 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 3:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 55% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1, 3-11 and 13-21, and 7 more places -- 55.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 116 BPM
I SAT BY THE OCEAN · BARS 3-4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 41, 62, 72, 84, 85, 92 and 6 more.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BARS 84-85 · LANDS ON BAR 86 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 96 · LANDS ON BAR 97 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

112 bars across 7 sections: 90 keep time and 12 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-33.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART F
OUTRO
4 groovesADLFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Sat By The Ocean?

116 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Sat By The Ocean hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in I Sat By The Ocean?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 41, 62, 72, 84, 85, 92 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED
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