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Hold Us Together · Matt Maher

Hold Us Together · Matt Maher
EXERCISE 1 OF 24
Groove I -- Outro 2
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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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hold Us Together on drums

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.

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
64
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
37/100

silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-14, snare through bars 15-20, hi-hat through bars 21-54, toms through bars 55-56 and snare through bars 57-64.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D, C -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Bars 25-31 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 29-57 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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