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Holiday · Green Day

EXERCISE 22 OF 49
Hold Groove F for 8 bars -- Part F (bars 43-50)
104 / 139 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 8
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Holiday on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-3, toms through bars 4-8, hi-hat through bars 9-28, ride through bars 29-35, snare through bars 36-37 and toms through bars 38-41, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
SD |------x-----------x-----|
FT |x-----x--x--x-----x--x--|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
Holiday -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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, F -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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