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Hold · Garbage

EXERCISE 1 OF 37
Groove C -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 37 PASSED · 32 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, CHORUS, CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hold on drums

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

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-34, snare through bars 35-42, hi-hat through bars 43-62, snare through bars 63-70 and hi-hat through bars 71-96, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    12               13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x---------x-|
BD |--x---x-x-x-----|x-------x-------|
Hold -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- C, F -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-28 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 23-35 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Bars 32-134 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Bars 41-66 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 68-96 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 95-103 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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