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EXERCISE 41 OF 54
2-bar fill at bar 95
114 / 125 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 5
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hold on drums

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.

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
64/100

snare through bars 1-62, toms through bars 63-64 and snare through bars 65-125.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- A, J -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-20 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 21-45 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 37-52 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and the Chorus 4 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 66-93 -- 9 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 5 and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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