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Heads or Tails · Simon

EXERCISE 1 OF 45
Groove N -- Part N
0 / 86 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Heads or Tails on drums

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.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
2:23
DIFFICULTY
71/100

ride through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, snare through bars 25-28, ride through bars 29-44, hi-hat through bars 45-68 and snare through bars 69-83, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- N -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 23-44 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED