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Sick Sick Sick · Queens Of The Stone Age

EXERCISE 6 OF 28
Groove E
67 / 86 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART D, OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sick Sick Sick on drums

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

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

TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
64/100

hi-hat through bars 3-18, snare through bars 19-22, hi-hat through bars 23-38, snare through bars 39-46, hi-hat through bars 47-58 and snare through bars 59-66, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x--x--x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--xx-x-x--|
Sick Sick Sick -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- F, D -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 21-33 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 32-48 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 38-77 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED