Dittohead · Slayer

131 bars at 230 BPM -- fast, and 2:17 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
230 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
2:17
DIFFICULTY
92/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-19, 24-38 and 116, and 4 more places -- 30.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 230 BPM
DITTOHEAD · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 4, 21, 23, 40, 42, 46 and 43 more.

LOOP · 230 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 230 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 230 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24
LOOP · 230 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

131 bars across 14 sections: 58 keep time, 49 are fills, 9 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-19.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART N
PART Q
PART V
PART AC
PART S12
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesDEVQH+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dittohead?

230 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Dittohead hard to play on drums?

92 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 2:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 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 Dittohead?

22 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 4, 21, 23, 40, 42, 46 and 43 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED
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