Hooligans Holiday · Mötley Crüe

108 bars, 5:43, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

RockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
5:43
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 22-24, and 4 more places -- 19.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 75 BPM
HOOLIGANS HOLIDAY · BARS 10-11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 9, 13, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 26 more.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 75 BPM
BARS 17-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

108 bars across 12 sections: 64 keep time, 32 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 99-108.

PART B
CHORUS
PART T
CHORUS 2
PART T
PART Y
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFTAMPY+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hooligans Holiday?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Hooligans Holiday hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 5:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, 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 Hooligans Holiday?

15 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 9, 13, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED
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