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Hold Back the River · James Bay

Hold Back the River · James Bay
EXERCISE 11 OF 48
Groove H
55 / 158 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART C
PART G
PART D
PART N
PART V
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
13 groovesJBGNS1+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hold Back the River on drums

158 bars of 4/4 at 133 BPM, about 4:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
4:45
DIFFICULTY
41/100

silence through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-50, ride through bars 51-66, hi-hat through bars 67-75, silence through bars 76-82 and toms through bars 83-112, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-34 -- 13.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Hold Back the River -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 74, 98, 114, 128, 129, 130 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- B, G -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 73-89 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part N -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Through Part N -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and Part S -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Hold Back the River?

133 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 Hold Back the River hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 6 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

158 bars, about 4:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 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 River?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 74, 98, 114, 128, 129, 130 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 158 BARS ANALYSED