Head Over Heels · Accept

116 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 4:34 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
4:34
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-32, 35-36 and 39-45, and 8 more places -- 25.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 102 BPM
HEAD OVER HEELS · BAR 32
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 10, 13, 14, 18, 22, 23 and 26 more.

LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 102 BPM
BARS 13-14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 102 BPM
BARS 22-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 11 sections: 62 keep time, 32 are fills, 1 is a stop and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 94-115.

COUNT-IN
PART D
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO 2
5 groovesMDCS1TFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Head Over Heels?

102 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 Heels hard to play on drums?

49 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 4:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Over Heels?

11 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 10, 13, 14, 18, 22, 23 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED
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