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I Sat By The Ocean · Queens Of The Stone Age

I Sat By The Ocean · Queens Of The Stone Age
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EXERCISE 21 OF 31
Groove L -- Outro (a two-bar phrase)
103 / 112 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART F
OUTRO
4 groovesADLFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Sat By The Ocean on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
68/100

hi-hat through bars 1-36, ride through bars 37-44, hi-hat through bars 45-80, ride through bars 81-100, snare through bars 101-108 and ride through bars 109-112.

The beat

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.

    3                4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x--g|
BD |x-x---x---x---x-|--x---x---x---x-|
I Sat By The Ocean -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- A, D -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 46-97 -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 99-112 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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