← SONGS

Holland, 1945 · Neutral Milk Hotel

EXERCISE 1 OF 38
Groove E -- Chorus
0 / 79 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 26 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Holland, 1945 on drums

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.

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
99 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
78/100

toms through bars 3-11 and ride through bars 12-79.

The beat

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.

    26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--xxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x--xx---x--xx---|
Holland, 1945 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- E -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
START THE COURSE ↑

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