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In My Head · Sad Park

In My Head · Sad Park
EXERCISE 1 OF 30
Groove B -- Chorus 2
0 / 89 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 42 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play In My Head on drums

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

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
69/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-79, snare through bars 80-85 and silence through bars 86-89.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x--x-x--xx-x-x--|
In My Head -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 18, 20, 24 and 13 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-34 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 31-53 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 51-57 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 57-89 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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