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headache [v2] · process: something

EXERCISE 10 OF 53
Fill at bar 14 and 18 (a small one)
33 / 124 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
PART F
PART M
PART S
CHORUS
PART AM
CHORUS 2
BREAK 5
15 groovesWFMSAM+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 2
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play headache [v2] on drums

120 bars of 4/4 at 111 BPM, about 4:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
111 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
4:26
DIFFICULTY
78/100

hi-hat through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-12, snare through bars 13-20, kick and crashes through bars 21-24, hi-hat through bars 25-51 and snare through bars 52-60, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-39, 41-42 and 75-77, and 1 more place -- 10.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    37
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |----X-------X-------xxxx--------|
T2 |x-----------------------x-x-----|
BD |x---x-x-x-x-----xxxxx-x-x-x-----|
headache [v2] -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 3, 4, 14, 18, 58, 60 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- O -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Break 2 and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part K and Part M -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 29-105 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is headache [v2]?

111 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 headache [v2] hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 94 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 4:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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 headache [v2]?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 3, 4, 14, 18, 58, 60 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED