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Holy, Holy · Geordie Greep

Holy, Holy · Geordie Greep
EXERCISE 17 OF 33
Groove M
188 / 216 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBTLAS4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Holy, Holy on drums

216 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 6:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
216
LENGTH
6:00
DIFFICULTY
61/100

snare through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-67, silence through bars 68-69, hi-hat through bars 70-90, snare through bars 91-98 and hi-hat through bars 99-136, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 13-19 and 29-31, and 9 more places -- 34.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- B, T -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 87-132 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Holy, Holy?

144 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 Holy, Holy hard to play on drums?

61 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

216 bars, about 6:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

5 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 216 BARS ANALYSED