Holidays In The Sun · Sex Pistols

118 bars of 4/4 at 154 BPM, about 3:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
154 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-20, 29-32 and 44-45, and 6 more places -- 21.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 154 BPM
HOLIDAYS IN THE SUN · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 11, 18, 28, 35, 36, 43 and 16 more.

LOOP · 154 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12
LOOP · 154 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 154 BPM
BARS 35-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 154 BPM
BARS 60-61 · LANDS ON BAR 62 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

118 bars across 11 sections: 80 keep time, 22 are fills and 4 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 102-112.

PART C
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART H
OUTRO
5 groovesIHEKCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Holidays In The Sun?

154 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 Holidays In The Sun hard to play on drums?

59 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?

118 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 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 Holidays In The Sun?

8 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 11, 18, 28, 35, 36, 43 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED
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