ATHERAKIA · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in My Head On Her Breasts

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.

TEMPO
262 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
200
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
34/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 262 BPM
MY HEAD ON HER BREASTS · BARS 10-11

It is played on hi-hat, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 20 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is the speed of the hand keeping time.

The whole song is 34 out of 100, so the beat is not the hard part: what costs you is everything around it, the joins and the fills.

How to get it under your hands

The room opens this beat on its simplest reduction, at 197 BPM, and adds the notes back a rung at a time -- 3 of them. Nothing is a matter of opinion: each rung has a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next one.

  1. Kick and snare, whole. The feet and the snare exactly as written, hi-hat pulled back to quarter notes. This is the part to know by heart.
  2. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 197, 229 and 262 BPM, and the gate at each one is 8 loops in a row with no wrong note and no wobble in the time.

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Questions

What drum beat does My Head On Her Breasts use?

A 2-bar phrase on hi-hat, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 262 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 53.4% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 9-32, 47-70, 96-107 and 109-131, and 1 more place. The time is kept on the kick and crashes to start with, and it changes 5 times over the song.

Is the beat in My Head On Her Breasts hard?

20 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how many notes a second it asks for the part that decides it.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 200 BARS ANALYSED