Holy · Siamese

118 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:22 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 43-45, 47-49 and 51-53, and 5 more places -- 23% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
HOLY · BAR 43
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 22, 26, 30, 34, 36, 37 and 22 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

118 bars across 12 sections: 54 keep time, 28 are fills, 8 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 47-53.

COUNT-IN
PART D
PART G
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesLQS1DN+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Holy?

140 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 hard to play on drums?

50 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?

118 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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?

14 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 22, 26, 30, 34, 36, 37 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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