The Vampyre Of Time And Memory · Queens Of The Stone Age

46 bars of 4/4 at a walking 76 BPM, 2:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
46
LENGTH
2:25
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-16, 18-20 and 22-32 -- 40.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 76 BPM
THE VAMPYRE OF TIME AND MEMORY · BAR 22
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 13, 35, 36, 38, 40, 42 and 2 more.

LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 76 BPM
BARS 35-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39
LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

46 bars across 3 sections: 30 keep time, 8 are fills, 3 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-33.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Vampyre Of Time And Memory?

76 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 Vampyre Of Time And Memory hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

46 bars, about 2:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 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 Vampyre Of Time And Memory?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 13, 35, 36, 38, 40, 42 and 2 more.

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