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Straight Jacket Fitting · Queens Of The Stone Age

EXERCISE 3 OF 53
Groove D -- Chorus
37 / 170 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT
PART C
CHORUS
PART J
PART C
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
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Straight Jacket Fitting on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
7:56
DIFFICULTY
79/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-18, toms through bars 19-20, hi-hat through bars 21-22, toms through bars 23-24 and hi-hat through bars 25-26, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    61
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |X---x-X---x-X---x-X-x-x-|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x---x-----x-x---x---x-x-|
Straight Jacket Fitting -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- Z -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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