Holland, 1945 · Neutral Milk Hotel

79 bars of 4/4 at a walking 99 BPM, 3:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieCountry / Folk90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
99 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12, 14 and 16, and 21 more places -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 99 BPM
HOLLAND, 1945 · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 4, 6, 11, 15, 17, 25 and 10 more.

LOOP · 99 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 99 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12
LOOP · 99 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 99 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

79 bars across 7 sections: 53 keep time, 17 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 61-69.

PART B
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEMBPF+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Holland, 1945?

99 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 Holland, 1945 hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Holland, 1945?

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 4, 6, 11, 15, 17, 25 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED
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