Hold The Door · Armor For Sleep

105 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 3:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkAlternative / IndieUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 45-47, and 10 more places -- 39.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 85 BPM
HOLD THE DOOR · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 28, 48, 52, 56, 60, 64 and 8 more.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 9 sections: 50 keep time, 14 are fills, 5 are stops and 29 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-43.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBS1LES9+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hold The Door?

85 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 The Door hard to play on drums?

61 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 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 The Door?

11 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 28, 48, 52, 56, 60, 64 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED
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