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Just Hold Me · Maria Mena

Just Hold Me · Maria Mena
EXERCISE 1 OF 39
Groove E -- Chorus 2
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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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Just Hold Me on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
91 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
41/100

silence through bars 1-12, snare through bars 13-18, hi-hat through bars 19-21, ride through bars 22-24, hi-hat through bars 25-28 and ride through bars 29-30, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Just Hold Me -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- E, F -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 13-80 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 25-42 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 43-61 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 58-84 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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