Hold On · Wilson Phillips

89 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 3:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20, 22 and 24, and 13 more places -- 18.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 98 BPM
HOLD ON · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 16, 17, 18, 19, 23, 27 and 10 more.

LOOP · 98 BPM
BARS 16-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 98 BPM
BARS 56-58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

89 bars across 9 sections: 61 keep time, 16 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-47.

PART A
PART B
PART D
CHORUS
VERSE
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesIPADB+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hold On?

98 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?

62 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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?

5 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 16, 17, 18, 19, 23, 27 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED
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