ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A View from a Hole on drums

183 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 5:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO: 125 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 183
LENGTH: 5:51
DIFFICULTY: 89/100

silence through bars 1-15, ride through bars 16-25, toms through bars 26-50, hi-hat through bars 51-55, ride through bars 56-65 and snare through bars 66-68, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 101-105, 116 and 159-165, and 1 more place -- 8.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    101                              102
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|------------------------x---x---|
RD |----x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x---------|
SD |-----x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x--------|
BD |x---x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-xxxxxxxx|

A View from a Hole -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

30 fills to learn, played 72 times: bars 26, 30, 32, 34, 36, 37 and 66 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 80 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- AP -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
Through Part AP -- 2 exercises, about 10 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- AK -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- BK -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Through Part B and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
Through Part E -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes. Open above.
Through Part C and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
Through Part E -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
and 20 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is A View from a Hole?

125 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 A View from a Hole hard to play on drums?

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 100 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

183 bars, about 5:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 80 exercises over 28 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in A View from a Hole?

30 fills to learn, played 72 times: bars 26, 30, 32, 34, 36, 37 and 66 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 183 BARS ANALYSED