Hold My Hand · Hootie And The Blowfish

84 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 4:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23, 37-47 and 61-63 -- 29.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 84 BPM
HOLD MY HAND · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 12, 34, 58, 74 and 82.

LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

84 bars across 5 sections: 44 keep time, 5 are fills, 18 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-26.

COUNT-IN
PART E
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesFES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hold My Hand?

84 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 My Hand hard to play on drums?

45 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, 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 My Hand?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 12, 34, 58, 74 and 82.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED
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