Shake Your Heads · Accept

92 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 4:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-18, and 3 more places -- 16.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 88 BPM
SHAKE YOUR HEADS · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 28, 32, 36, 48, 56 and 12 more.

LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

92 bars across 9 sections: 55 keep time, 18 are fills and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-22.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART Q
CHORUS 2
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGCYAFP+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Shake Your Heads?

88 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 Shake Your Heads hard to play on drums?

64 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 13 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 Shake Your Heads?

11 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 28, 32, 36, 48, 56 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED
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