Turnin On The Screw · Queens Of The Stone Age

115 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 5:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
5:14
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9, and 25 more places -- 27% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 88 BPM
TURNIN ON THE SCREW · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

115 bars across 12 sections: 90 keep time, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-29.

PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART R
PART U
PART D
7 groovesBCFUD+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Turnin On The Screw?

88 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Turnin On The Screw hard to play on drums?

47 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 9 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 5:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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.

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