Headup · Deftones

136 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 5:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieMetal90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
5:26
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-17, 23-30 and 41-47, and 4 more places -- 27.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 100 BPM
HEADUP · BAR 61
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 38, 48, 56, 60, 64, 68 and 10 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

136 bars across 8 sections: 97 keep time, 16 are fills, 4 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 89-136.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBTES1S7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Headup?

100 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 Headup hard to play on drums?

58 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 5:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 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 Headup?

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 38, 48, 56, 60, 64, 68 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED
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