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The Hollow · A Perfect Circle

EXERCISE 9 OF 66
Run B1 · Part B (bars 1-5)
22 / 73 BARS COVERED
0 / 66 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Hollow on drums

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.

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
2:48
DIFFICULTY
85/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-17, ride through bars 18-24, hi-hat through bars 25-34, snare through bars 35-41 and hi-hat through bars 42-57, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    11
    1.......2.......3.......
HH |x---x---x---o---o---o---|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-x-------------------g-|
The Hollow -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- I, U -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AC -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part B and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part E and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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