Hole In My Head · Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean

75 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 5 more places -- 36.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 90 BPM
HOLE IN MY HEAD · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 17, 21, 41, 45 and 59.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

75 bars across 8 sections: 53 keep time, 5 are fills, 1 is a stop and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-16.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART S6
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBEJLS6+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hole In My Head?

90 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 Hole In My Head hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Hole In My Head?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 17, 21, 41, 45 and 59.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 75 BARS ANALYSED
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