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Fixing A Hole · The Beatles

EXERCISE 3 OF 26
Groove M -- Part M
27 / 75 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT
PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART M
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesIJCSM+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fixing A Hole on drums

75 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 3:08 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
50/100

hi-hat through bars 3-15, snare through bars 16-19, hi-hat through bars 20-31, snare through bars 32-35 and hi-hat through bars 36-75.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-17, 32-34 and 62-67, and 2 more places -- 19.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    62
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
Fixing A Hole -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 59.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- J, I -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 3-22 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 27-40 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part M and Part S -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 46-61 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Fixing A Hole?

95 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 Fixing A Hole hard to play on drums?

50 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Fixing A Hole?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 59.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 75 BARS ANALYSED