hold my hand · HAN

116 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:54 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 25 and 46, and 4 more places -- 9.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
HOLD MY HAND · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 30 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 3-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 42-43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 47-49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 19 sections: 49 keep time, 36 are fills, 9 are stops and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-27.

PART A
PART A
CHORUS
BREAK 3
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART S
CHORUS 3
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesISAMS7+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is hold my hand?

160 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 my hand hard to play on drums?

47 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 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 my hand?

8 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED
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