Constant Headache · Joyce Manor

65 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / IndieUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7-10 and 17-24, and 1 more place -- 36.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 80 BPM
CONSTANT HEADACHE · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 6, 56, 60 and 64.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

65 bars across 9 sections: 46 keep time, 4 are fills, 1 is a stop and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-39.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART F
PART S7
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBDGFS7+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Constant Headache?

80 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 Constant Headache hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

65 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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.

How many fills are in Constant Headache?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 6, 56, 60 and 64.

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