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.

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

TEMPO

84 BPM

TIME

3/4

BARS

156

LENGTH

5:34

DIFFICULTY

77/100

ride through bar 1, toms through bars 2-16, hi-hat through bars 17-40, ride through bars 41-49, hi-hat through bars 50-57 and ride through bars 58-65, and 7 more changes after that.

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.

    50
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----------|
HH |--o---o-o---|
SD |-x--x--x--x-|
FT |----x-----x-|
BD |x-xx--x-xx--|
HF |----x-----x-|

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

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- R, M -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- N (a two-bar phrase) -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
3. Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes. Open above.
4. Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
5. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
6. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
7. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
8. Through Part P and Part R -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
9. and 7 more sittings after that.