Misfit Love · Queens Of The Stone Age

198 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 5:39 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
198
LENGTH
5:39
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-15, 17-19 and 21-23, and 30 more places -- 53.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
MISFIT LOVE · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 150, 154, 158, 162, 166, 170 and 4 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 150 · LANDS ON BAR 151
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 154 · LANDS ON BAR 155 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

198 bars across 6 sections: 173 keep time, 11 are fills and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-84.

CHORUS
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEHFS1CFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Misfit Love?

140 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 Misfit Love hard to play on drums?

58 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

198 bars, about 5:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Misfit Love?

2 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 150, 154, 158, 162, 166, 170 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 198 BARS ANALYSED
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