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Deadhead · Devin Townsend

EXERCISE 5 OF 34
Groove F -- Part F
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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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Deadhead on drums

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.

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
111 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
81/100

silence through bars 1-9, toms through bars 10-14, snare through bars 15-26, toms through bars 27-30, snare through bars 31-38 and toms through bars 39-40, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    15
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x--------x-----------x-----x--x--------------x--|
Deadhead -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 9-24 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 55-86 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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