QOTSA - The Lost Art of Keeping A Secret · Queens of the Stone Age

100 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-20 and 30-44 -- 35% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 110 BPM
QOTSA - THE LOST ART OF KEEPING A SECRET · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 21, 29, 45, 61, 63, 66 and 10 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 66-67 · LANDS ON BAR 68 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

100 bars across 7 sections: 76 keep time, 16 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-20.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesACDJGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is QOTSA - The Lost Art of Keeping A Secret?

110 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 QOTSA - The Lost Art of Keeping A Secret hard to play on drums?

56 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in QOTSA - The Lost Art of Keeping A Secret?

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 21, 29, 45, 61, 63, 66 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED
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