My Head On Her Breasts · Atherakia

200 bars at 262 BPM -- fast, and 3:03 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
262 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
200
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
34/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-32, 47-70 and 96-107, and 2 more places -- 53.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 262 BPM
MY HEAD ON HER BREASTS · BARS 10-11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 93, 191 and 197.

LOOP · 262 BPM
BAR 93 · LANDS ON BAR 94 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

200 bars across 11 sections: 154 keep time, 3 are fills, 11 are stops and 22 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 97-131.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART S8
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
6 groovesBDS8AI+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is My Head On Her Breasts?

262 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is My Head On Her Breasts hard to play on drums?

34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how many notes a second it asks for the part that decides it. The beat itself is 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

200 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in My Head On Her Breasts?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 93, 191 and 197.

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