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Regular John · Queens Of The Stone Age

EXERCISE 11 OF 33
Join Part D to Chorus 2 (bars 47-49)
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0 / 33 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Regular John on drums

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.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
159
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
69/100

snare through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-34, ride through bars 35-36, hi-hat through bars 37-40, ride through bars 41-42 and hi-hat through bars 43-46, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x---x---x---x-|
Regular John -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- C, O -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 45-100 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and the Chorus 3 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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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