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hold my hand · HAN

EXERCISE 19 OF 44
Groove N
57 / 116 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M, CHORUS 3
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play hold my hand on drums

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.

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
47/100

hi-hat through bars 2-11, snare through bars 12-19, hi-hat through bars 20-27, silence through bars 28-35, hi-hat through bars 36-51 and silence through bars 52-54, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x-----|
hold my hand -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- I, S -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and the Break 3 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part M -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part M and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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