hotel California (2013 remaster) · Eagles

119 bars, 6:26, at 74 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.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
6:26
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 51% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-31, 33 and 35, and 20 more places -- 50.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 74 BPM
HOTEL CALIFORNIA (2013 REMASTER) · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 32, 36, 48, 56, 72, 80 and 14 more.

LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

119 bars across 8 sections: 79 keep time, 20 are fills and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-31.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBS1LDA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is hotel California (2013 remaster)?

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

Is hotel California (2013 remaster) hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 6:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 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 hotel California (2013 remaster)?

13 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 32, 36, 48, 56, 72, 80 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED
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