Headlights · In Color

80 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 3:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Under 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 83% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 25-31, and 10 more places -- 82.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 88 BPM
HEADLIGHTS · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

80 bars across 4 sections: 64 keep time and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-48.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
3 groovesBS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Headlights?

88 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 Headlights hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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