No One Knows · Queens Of The Stone Age

180 bars at 169 BPM -- fast, and 4:16 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and upShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
169 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
180
LENGTH
4:16
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9, and 33 more places -- 33.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 169 BPM
NO ONE KNOWS · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 1, 2, 51, 52, 55, 56 and 18 more.

LOOP · 169 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 169 BPM
BARS 51-52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 169 BPM
BARS 55-56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 169 BPM
BARS 59-60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

180 bars across 11 sections: 119 keep time, 24 are fills, 13 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-18.

CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDHIS8C+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is No One Knows?

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

Is No One Knows hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

180 bars, about 4:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 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 No One Knows?

9 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 1, 2, 51, 52, 55, 56 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 180 BARS ANALYSED
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