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The Lost Art Of Keeping A Secret · Queens Of The Stone Age

EXERCISE 1 OF 32
Groove D -- Outro 2
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CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBDEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Lost Art Of Keeping A Secret on drums

100 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 3:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
64/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-21, ride through bars 22-29, hi-hat through bars 30-45, ride through bars 46-95 and toms through bars 96-100.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-24, 26-28 and 46-48, and 9 more places -- 36% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    24
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x--x----x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
The Lost Art Of Keeping A Secret -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 1, 21, 29, 45, 61, 66 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- D, B -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. Bars 21-62 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 21-46 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 30-72 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The Lost Art Of Keeping A Secret?

112 BPM, in 4/4, 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 The Lost Art Of Keeping A Secret hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 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 The Lost Art Of Keeping A Secret?

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 1, 21, 29, 45, 61, 66 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED