Just Hold Me · Maria Mena

98 bars of 4/4 at a walking 91 BPM, 4:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Pop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
91 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21, 25-26 and 41, and 10 more places -- 23.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 91 BPM
JUST HOLD ME · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 20, 28, 34, 35, 36, 40 and 5 more.

LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 91 BPM
BARS 34-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

98 bars across 10 sections: 61 keep time, 11 are fills, 1 is a stop and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 65-72.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART I
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesECFS1B+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Just Hold Me?

91 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 Just Hold Me hard to play on drums?

41 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 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 Just Hold Me?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 20, 28, 34, 35, 36, 40 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED
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