Song For The Dead · Queens Of The Stone Age

204 bars at 205 BPM -- fast, and 3:59 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockAlternative / Indie150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
205 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
204
LENGTH
3:59
DIFFICULTY
94/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 7% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 51, 53 and 55, and 11 more places -- 7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 205 BPM
SONG FOR THE DEAD · BAR 51
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

204 bars across 23 sections: 162 keep time and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 55-69.

PART A
PART W
CHORUS
PART AI
PART AX
PART BS
PART CH
19 groovesAEAAIANAX+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Song For The Dead?

205 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Song For The Dead hard to play on drums?

94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

204 bars, about 3:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 75 exercises over 27 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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