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

EXERCISE 1 OF 51
Groove H
0 / 187 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 41 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S3, PART J, PART S6
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Think I Lost My Headache on drums

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.

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
80 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
187
LENGTH
7:13
DIFFICULTY
52/100

snare through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-25, silence through bars 26-27, toms through bars 28-47, ride through bars 48-55 and silence through bars 56-59, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    28
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
FT |x-----x-x-------|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
I Think I Lost My Headache -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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, C -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part S3 and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 44-77 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 60-123 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 119-139 -- 8 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  7. Through Part R and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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