Groove Holmes · Beastie Boys

54 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 2:27 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
54
LENGTH
2:27
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 7 and 13-17, and 5 more places -- 42.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 88 BPM
GROOVE HOLMES · BAR 7
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 18.

LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

54 bars across 8 sections: 42 keep time, 1 is a fill and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-17.

PART C
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBDCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Groove Holmes?

88 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 Groove Holmes hard to play on drums?

54 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

54 bars, about 2:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Groove Holmes?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 18.

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