Hold On · Good Charlotte

130 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-35, 37-38 and 66-67, and 9 more places -- 25.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 135 BPM
HOLD ON · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 24, 31, 32, 33, 36, 63 and 28 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 31-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 79-81 · LANDS ON BAR 82 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

130 bars across 14 sections: 74 keep time, 34 are fills, 4 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-23.

COUNT-IN
PART C
PART F
CHORUS
PART C
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART A
PART V
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
9 groovesKCFVS1+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hold On?

135 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?

58 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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?

13 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 24, 31, 32, 33, 36, 63 and 28 more.

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