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EXERCISE 1 OF 24
Groove C -- Chorus
0 / 89 BARS COVERED
0 / 24 PASSED · 35 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Hold On on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
44/100

snare through bars 3-67, toms through bars 68-71, snare through bars 72-86 and silence through bars 87-89.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- C, G -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 18-29 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 3 and Part G -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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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