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My God Is The Sun · Queens Of The Stone Age

EXERCISE 33 OF 45
Join Part F to Chorus 4 (bars 149-151)
163 / 183 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, CHORUS 4
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play My God Is The Sun on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
183
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-18, snare through bars 19-20, hi-hat through bars 21-44, ride through bars 45-59 and toms through bars 60-67, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    48
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x---x---x---|
SD |x---x---x---|
BD |--x---x---x-|
My God Is The Sun -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- C, D -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Bars 4-25 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 52-79 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Bars 103-135 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 131-151 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 147-167 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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