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

EXERCISE 4 OF 36
Fill at bar 21, 29 and 75 (a small one)
59 / 100 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesACDJGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play QOTSA - The Lost Art of Keeping A Secret on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
56/100

hi-hat through bars 1-24, ride through bars 25-28, hi-hat through bars 29-48, ride through bars 49-56, hi-hat through bars 57-61 and ride through bars 62-64, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x--x----x--x|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
QOTSA - The Lost Art of Keeping A Secret -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- A, C -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Bars 55-62 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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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