Hold Us Together · Matt Maher

64 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 2:59 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
64
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 38, 40-46 and 48-54, and 2 more places -- 38.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 86 BPM
HOLD US TOGETHER · BAR 41
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 30, 39, 47, 55, 56, 59 and 1 more.

LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 86 BPM
BARS 55-56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 63 · LANDS ON BAR 64
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

64 bars across 6 sections: 39 keep time, 7 are fills, 1 is a stop and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-20.

COUNT-IN
PART C
PART D
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesIDS1CEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hold Us Together?

86 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 Us Together hard to play on drums?

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

64 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Us Together?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 30, 39, 47, 55, 56, 59 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 64 BARS ANALYSED
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