Hollow Years · Dream Theater

109 bars of 4/4 at a walking 77 BPM, 5:40 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

ProgressiveMetalUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
77 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
5:40
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-27, 42-48 and 50-56, and 1 more place -- 35.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 77 BPM
HOLLOW YEARS · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 28, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41 and 17 more.

LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 77 BPM
BARS 37-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67
LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 83 · LANDS ON BAR 84

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 10 sections: 73 keep time, 23 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-27.

PART B
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART P
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCGVRB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hollow Years?

77 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 Hollow Years hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 9 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 5:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Years?

10 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 28, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED
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