The Sky Is Fallin' · Queens Of The Stone Age

156 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 84 BPM, 5:34 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
5:34
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 50-57, 109-123 and 141-148 -- 19.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 84 BPM
THE SKY IS FALLIN' · BAR 50
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 6 more.

LOOP · 84 BPM
BARS 9-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 84 BPM
BARS 48-49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66
LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 124 · LANDS ON BAR 125
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

156 bars across 12 sections: 130 keep time and 12 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-39.

PART D
CHORUS
PART P
PART R
PART S
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART U
PART R
PART Y
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesMRPDY+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Sky Is Fallin'?

84 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Sky Is Fallin' hard to play on drums?

77 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?

156 bars, about 5:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 15 sittings, about 23 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 Sky Is Fallin'?

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED
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