Happy Holidays, You Bastard · blink-182

31 bars at 172 BPM -- fast, and 0:43 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkPop150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
172 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
31
LENGTH
0:43
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 10-14, and 4 more places -- 43.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 172 BPM
HAPPY HOLIDAYS, YOU BASTARD · BAR 10
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 9 more.

LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4
LOOP · 172 BPM
BARS 5-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

31 bars across 2 sections: 13 keep time, 15 are fills, 2 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-14.

OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Happy Holidays, You Bastard?

172 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Happy Holidays, You Bastard hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

31 bars, about 0:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Happy Holidays, You Bastard?

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 9 more.

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