Little Sister · Queens Of The Stone Age

116 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 3:00 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-16 and 18-25, and 8 more places -- 53.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 155 BPM
LITTLE SISTER · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 33, 40, 73, 80, 115 and 116.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 115-116 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 6 sections: 105 keep time and 6 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-25.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Little Sister?

155 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Little Sister hard to play on drums?

43 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Little Sister?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 33, 40, 73, 80, 115 and 116.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED
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