Paper Machete · Queens Of The Stone Age

113 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 3:21 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6-8, and 14 more places -- 42.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 132 BPM
PAPER MACHETE · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 3, 9, 13, 16, 17, 33 and 13 more.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BARS 16-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BARS 36-37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 10 sections: 81 keep time, 20 are fills and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-32.

CHORUS
PART L
PART N
PART Q
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
8 groovesBLWNQ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Paper Machete?

132 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 Paper Machete hard to play on drums?

64 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Paper Machete?

8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 3, 9, 13, 16, 17, 33 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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