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Headspin · Butcher babies

Headspin · Butcher babies
EXERCISE 27 OF 63
Join Part M to Chorus 2 (bars 59-61)
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0 / 63 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M, CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 4
JOIN · 11
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Headspin on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-7, toms through bars 8-9, snare through bars 10-12, hi-hat through bars 13-30, toms through bars 31-32 and snare through bars 33-46, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    41
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Headspin -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- E -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C, U -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 8-30 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Bars 45-125 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Bars 49-61 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 61-97 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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