I Shaved My Head · La Dispute

92 bars of 4/4 at 111 BPM, about 3:18 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
111 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-30 -- 30.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 111 BPM
I SHAVED MY HEAD · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 47, 55, 80, 89, 90, 91 and 1 more.

LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48
LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56
LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81
LOOP · 111 BPM
BARS 89-92 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

92 bars across 6 sections: 78 keep time, 7 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-30.

CHORUS
PART D
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCGDKS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Shaved My Head?

111 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 I Shaved My Head hard to play on drums?

52 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 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 I Shaved My Head?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 47, 55, 80, 89, 90, 91 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED
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