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No One Knows · Queens Of The Stone Age

EXERCISE 3 OF 46
Groove H -- Part H
83 / 180 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDHIS8C+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play No One Knows on drums

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.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
169 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
180
LENGTH
4:16
DIFFICULTY
74/100

hi-hat through bars 1-50, toms through bars 51-52, snare through bars 53-58, toms through bars 59-60, snare through bars 61-66 and hi-hat through bars 67-110, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------X-----------X-----|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
No One Knows -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 1, 2, 51, 52, 55, 56 and 18 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 -- D, C -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 55-150 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part H -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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