Dreadlock Holiday 1978 · 10cc

117 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:41 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
4:41
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 61% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-19 and 21-23, and 11 more places -- 60.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 100 BPM
DREADLOCK HOLIDAY 1978 · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 24, 56, 71, 72 and 88.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 71-72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 11 sections: 99 keep time, 5 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-55.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
7 groovesCHKOG+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dreadlock Holiday 1978?

100 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 Dreadlock Holiday 1978 hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 4:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 9 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Dreadlock Holiday 1978?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 24, 56, 71, 72 and 88.

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