Holiday · Scorpions

36 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 1:15 of playing, on crash, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
36
LENGTH
1:15
DIFFICULTY
21/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 97% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-35 -- 96.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 115 BPM
HOLIDAY · BAR 6
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

36 bars across 2 sections: 23 keep time, 9 are stops and 4 are silent.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Holiday?

115 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 Holiday hard to play on drums?

21 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the ghost notes and accents under the accents. The beat itself is 6 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

36 bars, about 1:15 at the written tempo. The course takes it in a single sitting of 3 exercises.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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