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Holy · Siamese

Holy · Siamese
EXERCISE 11 OF 59
Fill at bar 22
55 / 118 BARS COVERED
0 / 59 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART B
COUNT-IN
PART B
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Holy on drums

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

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-18, toms through bars 19-22, snare through bars 23-30, hi-hat through bars 31-38, snare through bars 39-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-66, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    43
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |---x----x-----x-|
BD |x-----x---x--x--|
Holy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- L, D -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part D and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 23-43 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Bars 43-109 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 57-91 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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