Sick Sick Sick · Queens Of The Stone Age

86 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 3:33 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-22, 39-46 and 59-66, and 1 more place -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 97 BPM
SICK SICK SICK · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 78.

LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 78 · LANDS ON BAR 79
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

86 bars across 11 sections: 68 keep time, 1 is a fill and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-15.

PART B
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFDBCG+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sick Sick Sick?

97 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 Sick Sick Sick hard to play on drums?

64 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Sick Sick Sick?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 78.

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