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Hollow Head · Blaze

EXERCISE 34 OF 56
Join Chorus 2 to Part S9 (bars 119-121)
146 / 194 BARS COVERED
0 / 56 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART S9
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART S9
PART Q
OUTRO 2
9 groovesIDVQX+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 1
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hollow Head on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
194
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
50/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, silence through bars 2-8, hi-hat through bars 9-17, silence through bars 18-24, hi-hat through bars 25-44 and ride through bars 45-60, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    9                10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x---x-x-----x-x-|--x-x-----x-----|
Hollow Head -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- D, I -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part S3 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Bars 68-137 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Bars 72-120 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 119-153 -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 143-161 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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