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Metal Health (Bang Your Head) · Quiet Riot

EXERCISE 7 OF 20
Groove I -- Outro
133 / 157 BARS COVERED
0 / 20 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesEIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Metal Health (Bang Your Head) on drums

157 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 5:28 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
5:28
DIFFICULTY
48/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-76, snare through bars 77-83, hi-hat through bars 84-95, snare through bars 96-102 and hi-hat through bars 103-152, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-36, 39-61 and 63-65, and 6 more places -- 74.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Metal Health (Bang Your Head) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 37, 38, 66, 67, 82 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- E -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-84 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Metal Health (Bang Your Head)?

115 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 Metal Health (Bang Your Head) hard to play on drums?

48 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 5:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 3 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Metal Health (Bang Your Head)?

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 37, 38, 66, 67, 82 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 157 BARS ANALYSED