In My Head · Sad Park

89 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:58 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 51% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9 and 17, and 11 more places -- 51.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
IN MY HEAD · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 18, 20, 24 and 13 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

89 bars across 10 sections: 54 keep time, 19 are fills, 1 is a stop and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 41-47.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBDS10LN+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is In My Head?

120 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 In My Head hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 2:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in In My Head?

5 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 18, 20, 24 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED
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