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Hold The Door · Armor For Sleep

EXERCISE 22 OF 40
Fill at bar 66 (a small one)
61 / 105 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART L
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hold The Door on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-24, snare through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-44, snare through bars 45-60, hi-hat through bars 61-72 and ride through bars 73-75, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    25
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------x-----x-------|
BD |x---x---------x-----x-x---------|
Hold The Door -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E, L -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 29-65 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 42-57 -- 5 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part L -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 71-89 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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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