Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings · Father John Misty

136 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 4:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Country / FolkAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
4:38
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-19, 21-22 and 72-78, and 4 more places -- 44.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 95 BPM
HOLLYWOOD FOREVER CEMETERY SINGS · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

136 bars across 7 sections: 36 keep time and 94 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 126-136.

PART A
CHORUS
PART A
PART C
PART A
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBACHEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings?

95 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 Forever Cemetery Sings hard to play on drums?

42 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 4:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED
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