Headlock · Imogen Heap

62 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:04 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
62
LENGTH
2:04
DIFFICULTY
35/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 60% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-20 and 47-62 -- 60% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
HEADLOCK · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

62 bars across 6 sections: 38 keep time and 22 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 48-62.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCS4BS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Headlock?

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 Headlock hard to play on drums?

35 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

62 bars, about 2:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 2 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 62 BARS ANALYSED
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