Hold Me · Fleetwood Mac

117 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:54 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 68% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-76, 86 and 88, and 6 more places -- 67.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
HOLD ME · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 83, 84, 116 and 117.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 83-84 · LANDS ON BAR 85 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 116-117 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 6 sections: 101 keep time, 4 are fills, 1 is a stop and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-76.

PART B
CHORUS
PART S4
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCBS4S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hold Me?

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 Me hard to play on drums?

44 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Me?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 83, 84, 116 and 117.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED
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