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Head On A Plate · Slaughter To Prevail

EXERCISE 10 OF 72
Groove L (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 72 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART R
CHORUS
PART R
PART B
PART AC
PART AH
PART AS
PART AV
OUTRO 2
14 groovesBHRACBC+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 4
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Head On A Plate on drums

158 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
75/100

snare through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-34, snare through bars 35-42, hi-hat through bars 43-51, silence through bars 52-54 and kick and crashes through bars 55-60, and 19 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 143-147, 149 and 151-155, and 1 more place -- 7.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    143
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |xxxx----x-x---x-xxxx----x-x---x-|
Head On A Plate -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 59 times: bars 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 53 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- BC -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- L (a two-bar phrase) -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part R -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through Part R and Part S3 -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Head On A Plate?

150 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 On A Plate hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

158 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 21 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 On A Plate?

17 fills to learn, played 59 times: bars 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 53 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 158 BARS ANALYSED