If Only · Queens Of The Stone Age

103 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 3:16 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9, and 35 more places -- 37.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 126 BPM
IF ONLY · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

103 bars across 3 sections: 99 keep time and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-103.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesECS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is If Only?

126 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 Only hard to play on drums?

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 11 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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