My Neck Kinda Hurts · Sullen

77 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 1:59 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
1:59
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 12 more places -- 24.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
MY NECK KINDA HURTS · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 25, 29, 30, 33, 35, 39 and 9 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 29-30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

80 bars across 11 sections: 40 keep time, 15 are fills, 16 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 64-71.

PART A
CHORUS
PART M
PART O
PART R
PART T
PART S8
OUTRO
11 groovesBS11AOM+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is My Neck Kinda Hurts?

150 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 My Neck Kinda Hurts hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 1:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 13 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in My Neck Kinda Hurts?

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 25, 29, 30, 33, 35, 39 and 9 more.

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