Bang Your Head (Metal Health) · Quiet Riot

155 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:58 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
4:58
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 76% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-36, 39-61 and 63-65, and 6 more places -- 75.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BANG YOUR HEAD (METAL HEALTH) · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 1, 37, 38, 66, 67, 82 and 8 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 37-38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 82-83 · LANDS ON BAR 84 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 91 · LANDS ON BAR 92

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

155 bars across 3 sections: 121 keep time, 14 are fills and 18 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-36.

CHORUS
OUTRO 2
2 groovesEIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bang Your Head (Metal Health)?

125 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 Bang Your Head (Metal Health) hard to play on drums?

46 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

155 bars, about 4:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Bang Your Head (Metal Health)?

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 1, 37, 38, 66, 67, 82 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 155 BARS ANALYSED
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