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Portrait Of A Headless Man · Septicflesh

EXERCISE 15 OF 50
Join Part D to Break 2 (bars 37-39)
72 / 145 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, BREAK 2
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
BREAK 2
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Portrait Of A Headless Man on drums

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.

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
4:25
DIFFICULTY
78/100

silence through bars 1-14, hi-hat through bars 15-39, snare through bars 40-47, hi-hat through bars 48-56, silence through bars 57-59 and hi-hat through bars 60-61, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    16
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----x--------x-----x-----x--x-----x--x--x--x--|
Portrait Of A Headless Man -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 37-48 -- 2 exercises, about 10 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part K -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part S8 -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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