Lump Your Head · Hollywood Undead

169 bars at 187 BPM -- fast, and 3:37 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO

187 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

169

LENGTH

3:37

DIFFICULTY

64/100

silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-44, snare through bars 45-47, hi-hat through bars 48-80, snare through bars 81-84 and hi-hat through bars 85-114, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-26, 49-62 and 85-91, and 5 more places -- 43.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    13                       14
    1.....2.....3.....4..... 1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|------------------------|
HH |------o-----o-----o-----|o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x-----------|x---------x-----x-------|

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 11, 12, 46, 47, 48, 82 and 9 more.

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- D -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
3. Bars 12-28 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
4. Through Part G -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
5. Through Part G -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
6. Through Part G -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
7. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
8. Bars 62-120 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
9. and 2 more sittings after that.