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Holiday · Get Up Kids

EXERCISE 32 OF 66
Groove Q
103 / 145 BARS COVERED
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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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Holiday on drums

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.

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
57/100

toms through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-8, snare through bars 9-10, hi-hat through bars 11-16, snare through bars 17-18 and hi-hat through bars 19-24, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M, N -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-45 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Through Part F -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 23-40 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part N -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 48-114 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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