Drilling your head · 200 Stab Wounds

87 bars at 173 BPM -- fast, and 2:01 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
173 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
2:01
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-6, 13-18 and 49-50, and 1 more place -- 18.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 173 BPM
DRILLING YOUR HEAD · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 7, 12, 19, 24, 28, 30 and 26 more.

LOOP · 173 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 173 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 173 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 173 BPM
BARS 30-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

87 bars across 7 sections: 40 keep time, 32 are fills, 8 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-6.

PART A
PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesHNAS3S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Drilling your head?

173 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 Drilling your head hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 2:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 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 Drilling your head?

11 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 7, 12, 19, 24, 28, 30 and 26 more.

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