Holiday · Get Up Kids

145 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 3:19 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePunk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-4, 7-8 and 11-12, and 9 more places -- 16.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 175 BPM
HOLIDAY · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 1, 2, 5, 10, 13, 18 and 28 more.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

145 bars across 15 sections: 85 keep time, 34 are fills, 2 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 109-117.

CHORUS
PART F
PART N
PART T
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART N
PART S
PART AB
9 groovesCFNMT+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Holiday?

175 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 Holiday hard to play on drums?

57 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Holiday?

13 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 1, 2, 5, 10, 13, 18 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED
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