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Headlock · Imogen Heap

Headlock · Imogen Heap
EXERCISE 6 OF 8
Join Chorus to Break (bars 19-21)
40 / 62 BARS COVERED
0 / 8 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, BREAK
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCS4BS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Headlock on drums

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

35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
62
LENGTH
2:04
DIFFICULTY
35/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-20, silence through bars 21-38 and hi-hat through bars 39-62.

The beat

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.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |------x---------|
HH |x-x-x---x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---------|
Headlock -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 7 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 -- C -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
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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