Born Headless · Cryptopsy

176 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 6:01 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
6:01
DIFFICULTY
81/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34, 36 and 38, and 7 more places -- 10.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BORN HEADLESS · BAR 34
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

36 fills to learn, played 61 times: bars 3, 5, 6, 11, 13, 17 and 55 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18

33 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

176 bars across 21 sections: 80 keep time, 61 are fills and 11 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 123-133.

PART A
CHORUS 2
PART AA
CHORUS 3
PART AV
PART AY
OUTRO
13 groovesNAAVAYW+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Born Headless?

110 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 Born Headless hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 82 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

176 bars, about 6:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 93 exercises over 31 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Born Headless?

36 fills to learn, played 61 times: bars 3, 5, 6, 11, 13, 17 and 55 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 176 BARS ANALYSED
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