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Holiday · Weezer

EXERCISE 37 OF 37
Play the whole song with the record
125 / 126 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 126 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
PART J
PART K
PART L
PART F
BREAK
OUTRO
8 groovesBFJEK+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Holiday on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
47/100

ride through bars 2-18, hi-hat through bars 19-27, ride through bars 28-44, hi-hat through bars 45-65, ride through bars 66-97 and hi-hat through bars 98-124, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |------x-----|
BD |x---x-----x-|
Holiday -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- F, B -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 2-123 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 53-80 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Bars 86-101 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Bars 98-126 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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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