Regular John · Queens Of The Stone Age

159 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 4:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
159
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-34, 38-40 and 44-46, and 8 more places -- 38.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 146 BPM
REGULAR JOHN · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

159 bars across 10 sections: 141 keep time and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 68-99.

PART A
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCHODAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Regular John?

146 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 Regular John hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

159 bars, about 4:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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