Standing on hollow · Arcadia

141 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
4:42
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 29 more places -- 24.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
STANDING ON HOLLOW · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 22, 23, 24 and 26 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 22-29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 8 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

141 bars across 19 sections: 87 keep time, 32 are fills and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 67-73.

CHORUS
PART S3
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART S
PART W
CHORUS 4
PART AA
PART AB
PART AE
OUTRO
12 groovesBPWAAAB+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Standing on hollow?

120 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 Standing on hollow hard to play on drums?

63 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 4:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Standing on hollow?

15 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 22, 23, 24 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED
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