I Hold On · Slash

89 bars of 4/4 at a walking 87 BPM, 4:06 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockAlternative / IndieUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 7 and 9, and 24 more places -- 41.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 87 BPM
I HOLD ON · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 18, 28, 44, 68, 69, 70 and 3 more.

LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 87 BPM
BARS 68-71 · LANDS ON BAR 72 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 79 · LANDS ON BAR 80

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

89 bars across 9 sections: 68 keep time, 9 are fills, 2 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-17.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART G
5 groovesCGS1S8S9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Hold On?

87 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 I Hold On hard to play on drums?

44 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 I Hold On?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 18, 28, 44, 68, 69, 70 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED
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