Heads Up · PRE-RUN

98 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 4:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
4:54
DIFFICULTY
94/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 25-27, and 2 more places -- 15.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 80 BPM
HEADS UP · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 4, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14 and 43 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 8-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 12-14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

98 bars across 11 sections: 38 keep time and 49 are fills.

CHORUS
PART I
PART M
PART I
PART M
PART T
PART AC
OUTRO 2
5 groovesAIMTACFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Heads Up?

80 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Up hard to play on drums?

94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 4:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Heads Up?

13 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 4, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14 and 43 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED
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