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Drilling your head · 200 Stab Wounds

EXERCISE 21 OF 38
3-bar fill at bar 30
60 / 87 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART A
PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesHNAS3S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Drilling your head on drums

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.

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
173 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
2:01
DIFFICULTY
64/100

hi-hat through bars 1-30, ride through bars 31-34, hi-hat through bars 35-44, toms through bars 45-47, hi-hat through bars 48-50 and snare through bars 51-60, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    1                2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x-------|----------------|
HH |------------o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxx--x--x-|x-----x-x-------|
Drilling your head -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- A -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 8-24 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED