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Make It Wit Chu · Queens Of The Stone Age

EXERCISE 15 OF 28
Groove J
92 / 103 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO, OUTRO 2
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesHBIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Make It Wit Chu on drums

103 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 4:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
4:27
DIFFICULTY
56/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-33, ride through bars 34-41, hi-hat through bars 42-57 and ride through bars 58-103.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-36, 38-39 and 58-60, and 10 more places -- 32% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Make It Wit Chu -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 9, 13, 33, 40, 41 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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, B -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 54-98 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Make It Wit Chu?

92 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 Make It Wit Chu hard to play on drums?

56 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 4:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Make It Wit Chu?

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 9, 13, 33, 40, 41 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED