Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On) · Talking Heads

163 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 5:43 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
5:43
DIFFICULTY
81/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 74% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 39 more places -- 73.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 114 BPM
BORN UNDER PUNCHES (THE HEAT GOES ON) · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

163 bars across 3 sections: 161 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 62-163.

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

Questions

What BPM is Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)?

114 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 Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On) hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

163 bars, about 5:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 22 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.

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