I Think I Lost My Headache · Queens Of The Stone Age

187 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 80 BPM, 7:13 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockAlternative / IndieUnder 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
187
LENGTH
7:13
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-46, 61-75 and 77-83 -- 23% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 80 BPM
I THINK I LOST MY HEADACHE · BAR 28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 23, 47, 60, 76, 84, 132 and 12 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

187 bars across 14 sections: 97 keep time, 23 are fills, 48 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-22.

CHORUS
PART S3
PART J
PART S6
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART R
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesCRQS6J+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Think I Lost My Headache?

80 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Think I Lost My Headache 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

187 bars, about 7:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 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 Think I Lost My Headache?

11 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 23, 47, 60, 76, 84, 132 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 187 BARS ANALYSED
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