Hollow Head · Blaze

194 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:53 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
194
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 25-27, and 9 more places -- 20.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 200 BPM
HOLLOW HEAD · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 7, 8, 12, 16, 24, 40 and 32 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 13 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

194 bars across 14 sections: 89 keep time, 39 are fills, 36 are stops and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-39.

PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART Q
OUTRO 2
9 groovesIDVQX+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hollow Head?

200 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Hollow Head hard to play on drums?

50 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

194 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 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 Hollow Head?

14 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 7, 8, 12, 16, 24, 40 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 194 BARS ANALYSED
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