Holding On To You · Twenty One Pilots

96 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 4:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Hip Hop / ReggaeAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
4:16
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-15, 25-28 and 33-36, and 1 more place -- 32.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 90 BPM
HOLDING ON TO YOU · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 16, 31, 32, 40, 80, 81 and 7 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 80-84 · LANDS ON BAR 85 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 86-88 · LANDS ON BAR 89 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

96 bars across 15 sections: 58 keep time, 13 are fills, 2 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-15.

CHORUS
PART D
PART D
PART K
PART L
PART S13
OUTRO 2
11 groovesBDS13KL+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Holding On To You?

90 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 Holding On To You hard to play on drums?

64 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 4:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Holding On To You?

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 16, 31, 32, 40, 80, 81 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED
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