Holiday · Green Day

139 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 3:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 38, and 3 more places -- 13.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 146 BPM
HOLIDAY · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 20, 28, 41, 49, 57 and 9 more.

LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 70 · LANDS ON BAR 71 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 146 BPM
BARS 109-112 · LANDS ON BAR 113 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 120 · LANDS ON BAR 121

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

139 bars across 14 sections: 86 keep time, 16 are fills, 16 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 94-103.

PART F
PART K
PART F
CHORUS
PART T
PART C
PART M
OUTRO
8 groovesLCFKG+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Holiday?

146 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Holiday hard to play on drums?

64 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 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 Holiday?

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 20, 28, 41, 49, 57 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED
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