On My Head · Dan Barta

91 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 2:43 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Jazz / BluesRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
2:43
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 27-33 and 35-41, and 4 more places -- 53.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 134 BPM
ON MY HEAD · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 26 and 58.

LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

91 bars across 6 sections: 81 keep time and 3 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 60-90.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesAEGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is On My Head?

134 BPM, in 4/4, 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 On My Head hard to play on drums?

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 2:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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 On My Head?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 26 and 58.

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