Hotel California
Eagles · 1976
A slow steady groove that rewards consistency and taste over an extended arrangement.
- Artist
- Eagles
- Year
- 1976
- Genre
- classic rock
- Drummer
- Don Henley
- Tempo
- 75 bpm
- Time
- 4/4
- Feel
- relaxed reggae-tinged rock
- Difficulty
- intermediate
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The feel
A relaxed reggae-tinged rock in 4/4 around 75 BPM. It's slow — the space between hits is the hard part; keep the pulse dead steady and resist filling gaps.
Form
Intro · Verse · Verse · Chorus · Verse · Chorus · Guitar Solo · Outro
What to watch
- •Play to a metronome and prize consistency over speed — even time is the whole game.
How to learn it
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