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Paper Machete · Queens Of The Stone Age

EXERCISE 14 OF 38
Join Chorus to Part L (bars 44-46)
75 / 113 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART L
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Paper Machete on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
64/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-42, toms through bars 43-44, snare through bars 45-46, toms through bars 47-51 and hi-hat through bars 52-63, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x---x---x-|
Paper Machete -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- B, L -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 44-53 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part L and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Bars 56-64 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 67-102 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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