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Heavy Is The Head That Falls With The Weight Of A Thousand Thoughts · Loathe

EXERCISE 31 OF 53
Groove U
89 / 138 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART R
CHORUS
PART S2
PART F
PART L
PART R
PART N
PART AE
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesANRLS11+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Heavy Is The Head That Falls With The Weight Of A Thousand Thoughts on drums

138 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 3:17 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
61/100

hi-hat through bars 1-33, silence through bars 34-40, hi-hat through bars 41-48, snare through bars 49-66, toms through bars 67-82 and snare through bars 83-109, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-15 and 17-23, and 1 more place -- 22.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Heavy Is The Head That Falls With The Weight Of A Thousand Thoughts -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 52, 56 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- A -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F, N -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-93 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 47-57 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and Part L -- 6 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part L -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and Part R -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through Part R -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Heavy Is The Head That Falls With The Weight Of A Thousand Thoughts?

168 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Heavy Is The Head That Falls With The Weight Of A Thousand Thoughts hard to play on drums?

61 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 82 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 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 Heavy Is The Head That Falls With The Weight Of A Thousand Thoughts?

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 52, 56 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED