Hold · Gazette

125 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 2:56 of it without a break -- on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 17-23 and 33-39, and 4 more places -- 31.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 170 BPM
HOLD · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 24, 28, 32 and 20 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

125 bars across 14 sections: 86 keep time, 26 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-7.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART F
PART J
CHORUS 4
PART F
CHORUS 5
PART J
OUTRO
6 groovesAJCFU+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hold?

170 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 hard to play on drums?

64 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, high tom, 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?

13 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 24, 28, 32 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED
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