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Song For The Deaf · Queens Of The Stone Age

EXERCISE 18 OF 51
Fill at bar 80 (a small one)
109 / 186 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART D
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Song For The Deaf on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
186
LENGTH
6:00
DIFFICULTY
73/100

silence through bars 1-12, toms through bars 13-32, snare through bars 33-40, toms through bars 41-52, ride through bars 53-60 and toms through bars 61-72, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    13           14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----------|------------|
SD |x-----x-----|x-----F-----|
T1 |---x-----x--|---x----xx--|
FT |--x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-----x-|
BD |-x---x-x---x|-x---x-x---x|
HF |x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x---x-x-|
Song For The Deaf -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 29-46 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 49-68 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 80-120 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part G and Part D -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 133-151 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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