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Holding On To You · Twenty One Pilots

EXERCISE 1 OF 39
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Holding On To You on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
4:16
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-16, toms through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-28, silence through bars 29-32 and hi-hat through bars 33-40, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--o---o---o---o-|
SD |----xx------x--x|
BD |x-------x-------|
HF |x---x---x---x---|
Holding On To You -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Bars 21-33 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 35-41 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 41-68 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and Part S13 -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Bars 73-89 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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