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hotel California (2013 remaster) · Eagles

EXERCISE 17 OF 46
Hold Groove L for 8 bars -- Part L (bars 64-71)
84 / 119 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play hotel California (2013 remaster) on drums

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.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.

TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
6:26
DIFFICULTY
43/100

silence through bars 1-12, ride through bars 13-16 and hi-hat through bars 17-119.

The beat

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.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-xxx-x-x-xxx-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-----x-|
hotel California (2013 remaster) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- B, D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-64 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part L and the Chorus 2 -- 10 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 -- 10 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 102-113 -- 7 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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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