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Off With His Head · Big Punisher

Off With His Head · Big Punisher
EXERCISE 1 OF 8
Groove C -- Outro (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 8 PASSED · 20 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
COUNT-IN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCS3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 1
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Off With His Head on drums

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

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
5/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
42/100

silence through bars 1-7, toms through bars 8-74 and silence through bars 75-84.

The beat

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.

    8                    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a
CC |x-------------------|--------------------|
SD |----x-------x-------|x-------x-------x---|
FT |x------xx-------x---|---xx--x----x------x|
BD |x------xx-------x---|---xx--x----x------x|
Off With His Head -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 6 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 -- C -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED