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Holdin · PeelingFlesh

EXERCISE 23 OF 51
Run S41 · Part S4 (bars 37-44)
45 / 80 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S4
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART H
PART S4
CHORUS
PART S
CHORUS 2
PART X
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesPS1SHB+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Holdin on drums

80 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 2:17 of playing, on crash, ride, 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 how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
2:17
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-22, toms through bars 23-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32, toms through bars 33-37 and silence through bars 38-40, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45-47, 49-51 and 61-63, and 1 more place -- 19.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    45
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Holdin -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 20, 24, 28, 33, 34, 44 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- P -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-45 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 37-61 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part S and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part X -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 67-73 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Holdin?

140 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 Holdin hard to play on drums?

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 2:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 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 Holdin?

13 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 20, 24, 28, 33, 34, 44 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 80 BARS ANALYSED