Headspin · Butcher babies

128 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 3:32 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-35, 37-38 and 41-43, and 9 more places -- 26.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 145 BPM
HEADSPIN · BAR 41
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 36, 40, 44, 52, 60, 64 and 13 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

128 bars across 16 sections: 80 keep time, 19 are fills, 4 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-23.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART U
PART Y
CHORUS 3
13 groovesECUMY+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Headspin?

145 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 Headspin hard to play on drums?

47 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Headspin?

13 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 36, 40, 44, 52, 60, 64 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED
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