I Am Dead In My Head · Alternative Competition 2

57 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 1:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
57
LENGTH
1:54
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 56% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-15, 29-31 and 33-35, and 2 more places -- 56.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
I AM DEAD IN MY HEAD · BAR 8
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 16, 26 and 57.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 57
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

57 bars across 4 sections: 47 keep time, 3 are fills and 6 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-15.

PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDFAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Am Dead In My Head?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 I Am Dead In My Head hard to play on drums?

59 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

57 bars, about 1:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in I Am Dead In My Head?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 16, 26 and 57.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 57 BARS ANALYSED
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