Deadhead · Devin Townsend

109 bars of 4/4 at 111 BPM, about 3:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

ProgressiveMetal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
111 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
81/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-19, 21-22 and 24-25, and 11 more places -- 53.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 111 BPM
DEADHEAD · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 9 more.

LOOP · 111 BPM
BARS 9-14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 111 BPM
BARS 39-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 9 sections: 71 keep time, 15 are fills, 3 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 64-81.

COUNT-IN
PART S2
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART S6
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesHWS1FS2+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Deadhead?

111 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 Deadhead 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 10 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 Deadhead?

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED
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