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I Shaved My Head · La Dispute

EXERCISE 24 OF 29
Groove N
84 / 92 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART D
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCGDKS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Shaved My Head on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
111 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
52/100

snare through bars 2-47, hi-hat through bars 48-88 and toms through bars 89-92.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- C, G -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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