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Trippin' on a Hole in a Paper Heart · Stone Temple Pilots

EXERCISE 3 OF 23
Fill at bar 1 (a small one)
39 / 77 BARS COVERED
0 / 23 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesFBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Trippin' on a Hole in a Paper Heart on drums

77 bars of 4/4 at a walking 106 BPM, 2:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
68/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-13, ride through bars 14-21, hi-hat through bars 22-33, ride through bars 34-49 and hi-hat through bars 50-61, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-15, 18-19 and 34-35, and 7 more places -- 26% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x----g--x---|
BD |--x---x---x---x-|
HF |x---x---x---x---|
Trippin' on a Hole in a Paper Heart -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 1, 12, 13, 21, 32, 33 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- F, B -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G (a two-bar phrase) -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 41-70 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Trippin' on a Hole in a Paper Heart?

106 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 Trippin' on a Hole in a Paper Heart hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

77 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Trippin' on a Hole in a Paper Heart?

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 1, 12, 13, 21, 32, 33 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED