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Visions in My Head (My Version) · Obituary

EXERCISE 1 OF 67
Groove D -- Chorus
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART K
CHORUS 4
PART A
PART A
PART Z
OUTRO
6 groovesDKZAB+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Visions in My Head (My Version) on drums

136 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
57/100

hi-hat through bars 1-49, snare through bars 50-52, hi-hat through bars 53-87, snare through bars 88-90, hi-hat through bars 91-123 and kick and crashes through bars 124-127, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-12, 14-20 and 26-33, and 5 more places -- 39% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Visions in My Head (My Version) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 5, 13, 21, 25, 36, 44 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L, A -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 6-26 -- 6 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Bars 36-46 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and the Chorus 3 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and Part K -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 73-104 -- 10 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Visions in My Head (My Version)?

130 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 Visions in My Head (My Version) 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 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 Visions in My Head (My Version)?

19 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 5, 13, 21, 25, 36, 44 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED