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

Hole In My Head · Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean
EXERCISE 1 OF 26
Groove B -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hole In My Head on drums

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.

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
40/100

hi-hat through bars 2-17, snare through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-41, snare through bars 42-47, kick and crashes through bars 48-49 and silence through bars 50-60, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- B, E -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 2-29 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Bars 47-64 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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