Hold Back The Day · DevilDriver

176 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 4:01 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
4:01
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-27, 29-35 and 61-67, and 5 more places -- 34.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 175 BPM
HOLD BACK THE DAY · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 15, 16, 19, 20, 28, 36 and 28 more.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

176 bars across 18 sections: 104 keep time, 34 are fills, 11 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 29-35.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART O
CHORUS 4
11 groovesGOJLS1+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hold Back The Day?

175 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Hold Back The Day hard to play on drums?

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

176 bars, about 4:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Hold Back The Day?

13 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 15, 16, 19, 20, 28, 36 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 176 BARS ANALYSED
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