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Hold On · Blink-182

EXERCISE 6 OF 24
Run S21 · Part S2 (bars 3-12)
48 / 73 BARS COVERED
0 / 24 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S2
PART S2
CHORUS
PART H
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEIS2HKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hold On on drums

73 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 2:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
2:32
DIFFICULTY
68/100

snare through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-12, ride through bars 13-20, snare through bars 21-24, hi-hat through bars 25-36 and ride through bars 37-44, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 37-39, and 5 more places -- 34.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    13               14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|------------x-x-|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|--x-x-x-x-x-----|
HH |----o---o---o---|o--o--o---o-----|
SD |x---x---x---x---|x--x--x---x-----|
BD |x-x-x-----x-----|x-x-x---x-x-----|
Hold On -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 33, 34 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- E -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 3-24 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part H and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 25-50 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 47-60 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Hold On?

115 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?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 2:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 8 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Hold On?

2 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 33, 34 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED