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Hooligans Holiday · Mötley Crüe

Hooligans Holiday · Mötley Crüe
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EXERCISE 4 OF 61
Groove T -- Part T
22 / 108 BARS COVERED
0 / 61 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE PART T, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hooligans Holiday on drums

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.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
5:43
DIFFICULTY
66/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, ride through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-32, ride through bars 33-39, hi-hat through bars 40-53 and ride through bars 54-61, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10                                               11
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
HH |------x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----------|
SD |------------x--------------------------x-----x--|------------x--------------------x--------x-----|
BD |x-----------------------x-----------------------|x--------------------------------------x-----x--|
Hooligans Holiday -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- F -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AM -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 6 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and Part T -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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