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Head Over Heels · Accept

EXERCISE 1 OF 47
Groove M -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Head Over Heels on drums

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.

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
4:34
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-10 and hi-hat through bars 11-116.

The beat

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.

    32
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-o-|
SD |----x-------x-x-|
BD |x-------x-------|
Head Over Heels -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- M, D -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N (a two-bar phrase) -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part C -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 22-34 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Bars 31-59 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part T -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part T and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part D and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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