Head Over Heels · The Go-Go's

28 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 0:41 of it without a break -- on ride, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
28
LENGTH
0:41
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8 and 18 -- 8.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 162 BPM
HEAD OVER HEELS · BAR 8
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

28 bars across 4 sections: 20 keep time and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-22.

COUNT-IN
PART S2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesESS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Head Over Heels?

162 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Head Over Heels hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

28 bars, about 0:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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