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Dreadlock Holiday 1978 · 10cc

EXERCISE 1 OF 30
Groove C -- Chorus
0 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 69 BARS LIT
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
7 groovesCHKOG+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dreadlock Holiday 1978 on drums

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.

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
4:41
DIFFICULTY
38/100

silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-117.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----r-------r---|
BD |x---------------|
Dreadlock Holiday 1978 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 27-33 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 56-65 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  7. Bars 87-93 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED