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Question! · System of a Down

EXERCISE 26 OF 45
Join Chorus to Part G (bars 61-63)
108 / 153 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART G
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 2
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Question! on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
172 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-10, toms through bars 11-14, hi-hat through bars 15-34, ride through bars 35-42, hi-hat through bars 43-60 and toms through bars 61-62, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    43           44
    1e+a2e+a3e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----------|------------|
HH |----o---o---|o---o---o---|
SD |------------|x-----------|
BD |x-----x---x-|------x-x---|
Question! -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- L, C -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 13-28 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Bars 29-43 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 33-47 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 59-114 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part D and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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