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EXERCISE 12 OF 27
Run F1 · Part F (bars 13-36)
114 / 140 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 24 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesIFOBD+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Head Like A Hole on drums

140 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 4:52 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

99 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the speed of the hand keeping time.

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
4:52
DIFFICULTY
99/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-8 and hi-hat through bars 9-140.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-52, 77-79 and 81-83, and 3 more places -- 44.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    37
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x-xxxxx-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-xx|
SD |--------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

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

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 -- I -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 13-80 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Head Like A Hole?

115 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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?

99 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the speed of the hand keeping time. The beat itself is 97 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 4:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED