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Hold Me · Fleetwood Mac

EXERCISE 1 OF 16
Groove C -- Chorus
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0 / 16 PASSED · 74 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO, OUTRO 2
PART B
CHORUS
PART S4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCBS4S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hold Me on drums

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

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
44/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-77, silence through bars 78-82, toms through bars 83-84, hi-hat through bars 85-115 and snare through bars 116-117.

The beat

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.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-----x-|
Hold Me -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 11-93 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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