Hold on Loosely · 38 Special

149 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 4:39 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPop120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
4:39
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 23-25 and 27-29, and 10 more places -- 22.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 128 BPM
HOLD ON LOOSELY · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 5, 21, 41, 53, 65, 66 and 16 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 65-66 · LANDS ON BAR 67 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

149 bars across 11 sections: 111 keep time, 22 are fills and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-40.

CHORUS
PART P
PART K
PART H
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesEHCKP+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hold on Loosely?

128 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 Loosely hard to play on drums?

55 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 4:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 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 Loosely?

15 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 5, 21, 41, 53, 65, 66 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED
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