The Fun Machine Took A Shit And Died · Queens Of The Stone Age

208 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 6:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
208
LENGTH
6:28
DIFFICULTY
90/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-34, 36-38 and 69-70, and 8 more places -- 13.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 128 BPM
THE FUN MACHINE TOOK A SHIT AND DIED · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 191 and 203.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 191 · LANDS ON BAR 192
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 203 · LANDS ON BAR 204
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

208 bars across 15 sections: 173 keep time, 3 are fills and 11 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 147-171.

PART D
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART V
PART AB
PART AC
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesIACDQAB+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Fun Machine Took A Shit And Died?

128 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 Fun Machine Took A Shit And Died hard to play on drums?

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

How long is the drum part?

208 bars, about 6:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 20 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Fun Machine Took A Shit And Died?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 191 and 203.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 208 BARS ANALYSED
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