Question! · System of a Down

153 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 172 BPM, 3:27 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive150 BPM and upShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
172 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 43-59 and 85-101 -- 25.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 172 BPM
QUESTION! · BARS 43-44
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 18, 42, 60, 62, 84, 118 and 3 more.

LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61
LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

153 bars across 20 sections: 96 keep time, 9 are fills, 8 are stops and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 126-141.

COUNT-IN
PART G
PART J
CHORUS
PART G
PART J
CHORUS 2
VERSE
11 groovesLCGJU+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Question!?

172 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Question! hard to play on drums?

62 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Question!?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 18, 42, 60, 62, 84, 118 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED
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