Hills Like White Elephants · Isles & Glaciers

228 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 190 BPM, 3:36 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
228
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 10, and 23 more places -- 16.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 190 BPM
HILLS LIKE WHITE ELEPHANTS · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 1, 8, 9, 13, 16, 23 and 31 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 8-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

228 bars across 19 sections: 57 keep time, 37 are fills, 73 are stops and 50 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 50-55.

CHORUS
PART A
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART S10
PART N
PART S15
OUTRO 2
13 groovesCNJS15B+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hills Like White Elephants?

190 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Hills Like White Elephants hard to play on drums?

52 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

228 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Hills Like White Elephants?

13 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 1, 8, 9, 13, 16, 23 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 228 BARS ANALYSED
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