The Way You Used To Do · Queens Of The Stone Age

207 bars at 196 BPM -- fast, and 4:13 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
196 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
207
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-43, 45-47 and 49-51, and 11 more places -- 21.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 196 BPM
THE WAY YOU USED TO DO · BAR 42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 32, 36, 76, 88, 133, 147 and 13 more.

LOOP · 196 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 196 BPM
BAR 133 · LANDS ON BAR 134
LOOP · 196 BPM
BARS 167-174 · LANDS ON BAR 175 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 196 BPM
BAR 178 · LANDS ON BAR 179

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

207 bars across 19 sections: 138 keep time, 19 are fills, 15 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 41-71.

PART A
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 4
PART C
12 groovesFCAQAE+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Way You Used To Do?

196 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Way You Used To Do hard to play on drums?

58 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

207 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in The Way You Used To Do?

6 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 32, 36, 76, 88, 133, 147 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 207 BARS ANALYSED
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