The Hollow · A Perfect Circle

73 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 78 BPM, 2:48 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieMetalUnder 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
2:48
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-12, 16 and 27, and 1 more place -- 8.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 78 BPM
THE HOLLOW · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 3, 7, 9, 17, 18 and 19 more.

LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4
LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

73 bars across 8 sections: 38 keep time and 25 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-16.

PART B
PART E
PART N
PART I
PART U
PART W
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesAGENUAC+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Hollow?

78 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 The Hollow hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 2:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 16 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 The Hollow?

17 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 3, 7, 9, 17, 18 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED
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