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Holy Roller · Box Of Spirits

EXERCISE 26 OF 39
Groove R -- Part R (a two-bar phrase)
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART I
PART L
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART R
OUTRO
11 groovesCS1RIL+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Holy Roller on drums

112 bars at 161 BPM -- fast, and 2:47 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
161 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-12, snare through bars 13-28, silence through bars 29-30, snare through bars 31-46, hi-hat through bars 47-57 and snare through bars 58-74, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13, 15-17 and 21, and 13 more places -- 22.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-------x-x-|
Holy Roller -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 19, 20, 24, 46, 65, 66 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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, C -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Bars 23-35 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 34-48 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part L and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 49-77 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part R -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Break 4 and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Holy Roller?

161 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Holy Roller hard to play on drums?

47 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 2:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 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 Holy Roller?

7 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 19, 20, 24, 46, 65, 66 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED