Straight Jacket Fitting · Queens Of The Stone Age

170 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 7:56 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Jazz / BluesAlternative / IndieUnder 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
7:56
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 61, 63 and 65, and 17 more places -- 12.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 85 BPM
STRAIGHT JACKET FITTING · BAR 61
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 19, 20, 22, 26, 27, 28 and 17 more.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BARS 26-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

170 bars across 15 sections: 106 keep time, 23 are fills, 13 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 67-99.

CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART Z
PART S10
PART J
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDZPJT+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Straight Jacket Fitting?

85 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Straight Jacket Fitting hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

170 bars, about 7:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 17 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Straight Jacket Fitting?

7 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 19, 20, 22, 26, 27, 28 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 170 BARS ANALYSED
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