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If I Had A Tail · Queens Of The Stone Age

EXERCISE 23 OF 29
Groove O
112 / 121 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCHNFL+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play If I Had A Tail on drums

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.

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
4:17
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-6 and hi-hat through bars 7-121.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
If I Had A Tail -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- C, H -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 34-43 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Bars 103-116 -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  7. Bars 101-113 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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