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Heads Will Roll · Yeah Yeah Yeahs

EXERCISE 15 OF 40
Join Part E to Part I (bars 47-49)
89 / 121 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, PART I
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
PART E
PART I
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBIS1ED+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Heads Will Roll on drums

121 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 3:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-32, toms through bars 33-48, hi-hat through bars 49-72, snare through bars 73-78 and kick and crashes through bars 79-80, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-32, 73-75 and 77, and 2 more places -- 27.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Heads Will Roll -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 48, 90 and 106.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- B, I -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 32-41 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro 2 -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 45-66 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 64-89 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 86-110 -- 9 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Heads Will Roll?

132 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 Will Roll hard to play on drums?

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Will Roll?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 48, 90 and 106.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED