Heads or Tails · Simon

86 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
2:23
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-35 and 37-43 -- 17.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
HEADS OR TAILS · BAR 30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 2, 4, 10, 12, 16, 20 and 11 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

86 bars across 11 sections: 56 keep time, 17 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 37-43.

PART A
CHORUS
PART N
PART Q
CHORUS 2
PART T
8 groovesGNATL+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Heads or Tails?

150 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 Heads or Tails hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 2:23 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, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Heads or Tails?

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 2, 4, 10, 12, 16, 20 and 11 more.

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