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Hold On · Wilson Phillips

Hold On · Wilson Phillips
EXERCISE 4 OF 35
Groove P -- Verse
22 / 89 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE VERSE
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hold On on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
62/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

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.

    20
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--xxx-xxx-xxx-xx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|
Hold On -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- I -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P, A -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part A and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 11-24 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 28-50 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through the Verse and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 58-89 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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