Headfirst Slide Into Cooperstown On A Bad Bet · Fall Out Boy

112 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:44 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 21-23, 25-27 and 45-47, and 5 more places -- 28.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
HEADFIRST SLIDE INTO COOPERSTOWN ON A BAD BET · BARS 21-22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 20, 44, 48, 52, 82, 84 and 9 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

112 bars across 9 sections: 60 keep time, 15 are fills, 16 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 53-71.

PART C
CHORUS
PART S4
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART S7
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFCS7ZJ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Headfirst Slide Into Cooperstown On A Bad Bet?

120 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 Headfirst Slide Into Cooperstown On A Bad Bet hard to play on drums?

52 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 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 Headfirst Slide Into Cooperstown On A Bad Bet?

11 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 20, 44, 48, 52, 82, 84 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED
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