Head Over Feet · Alanis Morissette

87 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 4:15 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePopUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-12, 21-26 and 49-60 -- 27.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 82 BPM
HEAD OVER FEET · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

87 bars across 5 sections: 79 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 66-86.

PART A
CHORUS
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBDAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Head Over Feet?

82 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 Over Feet hard to play on drums?

63 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 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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