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Hold On Till May · Pierce The Veil

EXERCISE 4 OF 57
Fill at bar 66, 68, 76 and 132 (a small one)
38 / 153 BARS COVERED
0 / 57 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
PART C
PART S3
PART N
CHORUS
PART AA
PART AC
PART AG
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesWAAAGNC+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hold On Till May on drums

153 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 4:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-9, snare through bars 10-25, silence through bars 26-33, toms through bars 34-40, hi-hat through bars 41-58 and snare through bars 59-62, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 81-96 and 145-151 -- 16.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    81               82
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
RD |----g---x---g---|g---g---x---g---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|----------------|
Hold On Till May -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 52, 56, 57, 58, 66, 68 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- AA, W -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AC -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 8-40 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part L -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through Part L -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part AA -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Hold On Till May?

146 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 Till May hard to play on drums?

52 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 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 Till May?

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 52, 56, 57, 58, 66, 68 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED