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Head Like A Hole · AFI

EXERCISE 15 OF 54
Groove G
74 / 128 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT
PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART H
PART B
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART O
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
10 groovesFHBDK+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 7
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Head Like A Hole on drums

128 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:56 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
40/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-12, snare through bars 13-28, hi-hat through bars 29-36, snare through bars 37-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-76, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-31, 33-35 and 69-71, and 5 more places -- 22.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    29
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x--x----x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Head Like A Hole -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 28, 44, 48, 68, 84 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- F, D, H -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through Part B -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-29 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Bars 25-45 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 41-56 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Bars 53-80 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 77-96 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 94-101 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Head Like A Hole?

130 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 Like A Hole hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 10 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Head Like A Hole?

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 28, 44, 48, 68, 84 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED