If I Had A Tail · Queens Of The Stone Age

121 bars of 4/4 at 113 BPM, about 4:17 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
4:17
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-13, 15-21 and 23-29, and 5 more places -- 41.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 113 BPM
IF I HAD A TAIL · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 42, 46, 50, 86, 90 and 96.

LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 10 sections: 99 keep time, 6 are fills and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-36.

CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART L
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCHNFL+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is If I Had A Tail?

113 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 If I Had A Tail hard to play on drums?

51 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 4:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 If I Had A Tail?

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 42, 46, 50, 86, 90 and 96.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED
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