The Evil Has Landed · Queens Of The Stone Age

134 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 6:17 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
6:17
DIFFICULTY
81/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9-10, and 14 more places -- 32.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 85 BPM
THE EVIL HAS LANDED · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 27, 52, 68, 69, 70, 72 and 16 more.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BARS 68-70 · LANDS ON BAR 71 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 92 · LANDS ON BAR 93

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

134 bars across 8 sections: 96 keep time, 23 are fills, 2 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 28-51.

CHORUS
PART I
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBZLTI+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Evil Has Landed?

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 The Evil Has Landed hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 6:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 The Evil Has Landed?

8 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 27, 52, 68, 69, 70, 72 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED
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