Keep Holding On · Avril Lavigne

207 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 162 BPM, 3:50 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopAlternative / Indie150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
207
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
27/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 67% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-39, 41-47 and 49-55, and 15 more places -- 66.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 162 BPM
KEEP HOLDING ON · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

207 bars across 12 sections: 154 keep time, 26 are stops and 24 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 66-79.

PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
8 groovesFCS1S11A+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Keep Holding On?

162 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Keep Holding On hard to play on drums?

27 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 3 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

207 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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.

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