Off With His Head · Big Punisher

84 bars of 5/4 -- not four -- at 97 BPM, 3:58 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Hip Hop / Reggae90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
5/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 8-9, 15-16 and 22-23, and 7 more places -- 29.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 97 BPM
OFF WITH HIS HEAD · BARS 8-9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 13 and 14.

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

84 bars across 3 sections: 55 keep time, 2 are fills, 9 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-20.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCS3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Off With His Head?

97 BPM, in 5/4, 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 Off With His Head hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Off With His Head?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 13 and 14.

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