Hollywood Baby · 100 Gecs

60 bars of 4/4 at a walking 77 BPM, 3:07 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / IndieUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
77 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
60
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
33/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-4, 9-12 and 23-26, and 4 more places -- 39.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 77 BPM
HOLLYWOOD BABY · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 7, 8, 13, 14, 27, 28 and 10 more.

LOOP · 77 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 77 BPM
BARS 13-14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 77 BPM
BARS 27-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

60 bars across 10 sections: 32 keep time, 16 are fills, 2 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 46-51.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART G
OUTRO
6 groovesBGS3S8S9+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hollywood Baby?

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 Hollywood Baby hard to play on drums?

33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

60 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 7, 8, 13, 14, 27, 28 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 60 BARS ANALYSED
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