Hold On · Alabama Shakes

83 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 3:57 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Jazz / BluesAlternative / IndieUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 70% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-25, 27-40 and 51-64 -- 69.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 84 BPM
HOLD ON · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

83 bars across 6 sections: 68 keep time and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-42.

CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
OUTRO
4 groovesAHS5LFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hold On?

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 On hard to play on drums?

48 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 3:57 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, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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