My God Is The Sun · Queens Of The Stone Age

183 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 165 BPM, 3:20 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and upShuffle / tripletBeginner
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
183
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-20, 48 and 56, and 10 more places -- 37% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 165 BPM
MY GOD IS THE SUN · BAR 48
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 28, 36, 44, 52, 86, 94 and 12 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 134 · LANDS ON BAR 135
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 138 · LANDS ON BAR 139 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

183 bars across 15 sections: 129 keep time, 18 are fills, 15 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 152-165.

CHORUS
PART D
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART F
CHORUS 4
8 groovesCDFAO+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is My God Is The Sun?

165 BPM, in 3/4, 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 My God Is The Sun 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

183 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 My God Is The Sun?

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 28, 36, 44, 52, 86, 94 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 183 BARS ANALYSED
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