Song For The Deaf · Queens Of The Stone Age

186 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 96 BPM, 6:00 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
186
LENGTH
6:00
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-32, 41-45 and 47, and 11 more places -- 31.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 96 BPM
SONG FOR THE DEAF · BARS 13-14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 34, 36, 54, 56, 58, 60 and 22 more.

LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 96 BPM
BARS 60-64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

186 bars across 25 sections: 98 keep time, 28 are fills, 5 are stops and 40 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-31.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART D
CHORUS 4
PART G
PART D
PART S17
15 groovesBDGS17S1+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Song For The Deaf?

96 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Song For The Deaf hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

186 bars, about 6:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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.

How many fills are in Song For The Deaf?

11 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 34, 36, 54, 56, 58, 60 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 186 BARS ANALYSED
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