Hold · Garbage

134 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:28 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5, 8 and 10, and 3 more places -- 24.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
HOLD · BARS 12-13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 70, 118 and 126.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 70 · LANDS ON BAR 71 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

134 bars across 15 sections: 108 keep time, 3 are fills, 2 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 78-96.

PART B
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART K
PART E
PART F
OUTRO 2
9 groovesCFKEG+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hold?

120 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 hard to play on drums?

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 4:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Hold?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 70, 118 and 126.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED
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