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Head In The Ceiling Fan · Title Fight

EXERCISE 1 OF 15
Groove N -- Outro 2
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COUNT-IN
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesFANS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Head In The Ceiling Fan on drums

61 bars of 4/4 at 121 BPM, about 2:01 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
121 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
2:01
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-21, hi-hat through bars 22-29, snare through bars 30-45, hi-hat through bars 46-50 and kick and crashes through bars 51-53, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 55-61 -- 12.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    55
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |--------g-------|
RD |g---g---g---g---|
SD |--------x-------|
Head In The Ceiling Fan -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 21, 29 and 45.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- N, F -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-61 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Head In The Ceiling Fan?

121 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Head In The Ceiling Fan hard to play on drums?

45 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 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

61 bars, about 2:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Head In The Ceiling Fan?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 21, 29 and 45.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 61 BARS ANALYSED