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

EXERCISE 1 OF 50
Groove F -- Chorus
0 / 207 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 40 BARS LIT
PART A
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART C
12 groovesFCAQAE+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Way You Used To Do on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
196 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
207
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-27, toms through bars 28-40, hi-hat through bars 41-72, toms through bars 73-92 and hi-hat through bars 93-100, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    42
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--------x-----x--------|
The Way You Used To Do -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- F, C -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 102-168 -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part Q -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 116-147 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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