Holiday · Weezer

126 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 120 BPM, 3:09 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-22, 24-26 and 46-48, and 9 more places -- 28.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
HOLIDAY · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 9, 17, 18, 29, 31, 43 and 11 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 17-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 63-65 · LANDS ON BAR 66 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

126 bars across 9 sections: 99 keep time, 17 are fills, 2 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 67-80.

CHORUS
PART F
PART J
PART K
PART L
PART F
OUTRO
8 groovesBFJEK+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Holiday?

120 BPM, in 3/4, 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?

47 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 3:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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?

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 9, 17, 18, 29, 31, 43 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED
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