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Hold On · Gojira

EXERCISE 1 OF 63
Groove F -- Part F
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART S4
PART F
PART J
PART I
PART F
PART T
PART AE
PART AJ
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesCTJFS4+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 6
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hold On on drums

182 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 5:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
182
LENGTH
5:41
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-11, toms through bars 12-48, ride through bars 49-51, silence through bars 52-62, snare through bars 63-78 and hi-hat through bars 79-86, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 63-65, 67-69 and 71-73, and 17 more places -- 29.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    63
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------x-----------------------x-----------|
Hold On -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 82, 86, 98, 102, 106, 114 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- F, C -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 49-66 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part F -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 77-112 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 108-119 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Hold On?

128 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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?

53 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

182 bars, about 5:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 On?

11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 82, 86, 98, 102, 106, 114 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 182 BARS ANALYSED