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Hollywood · AALA

EXERCISE 13 OF 23
Join Part K to Break 3 (bars 45-47)
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0 / 23 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, BREAK 3
PART C
BREAK
PART G
CHORUS
PART F
PART K
BREAK 3
PART M
PART O
BREAK 6
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
15 groovesAS14KGC+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hollywood on drums

80 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:40 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
2:40
DIFFICULTY
33/100

silence through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-10, silence through bars 11-14, snare through bars 15-40, toms through bars 41-47 and kick and crashes through bars 48-56, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-22 -- 8.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |--------------x-|
SD |--x-x---x-x---x-|
BD |x-----x-----x---|
Hollywood -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 49 and 53.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- G, C -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Bars 24-46 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 45-58 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 57-77 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Hollywood?

120 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 Hollywood hard to play on drums?

33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 2:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Hollywood?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 49 and 53.

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