Portrait Of A Headless Man · Septicflesh

145 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
4:25
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-21, 23-29 and 40-46, and 1 more place -- 23.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
PORTRAIT OF A HEADLESS MAN · BAR 16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 22, 34, 35, 36, 37, 47 and 17 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 34-37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 73-74 · LANDS ON BAR 75 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

145 bars across 19 sections: 73 keep time, 23 are fills, 12 are stops and 24 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 61-72.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART K
PART O
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesBKODS1+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Portrait Of A Headless Man?

130 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 Portrait Of A Headless Man hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 4:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 14 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Portrait Of A Headless Man?

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 22, 34, 35, 36, 37, 47 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED
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