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Keep Holding On · Avril Lavigne

EXERCISE 8 OF 14
Join Part C to Chorus (bars 32-34)
173 / 207 BARS COVERED
0 / 14 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
8 groovesFCS1S11A+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Keep Holding On on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
207
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
27/100

silence through bars 1-30, hi-hat through bars 31-77, snare through bars 78-86, hi-hat through bars 87-136, silence through bars 137-143 and hi-hat through bars 144-207.

The beat

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.

    34
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |o---o---o---|
SD |x-----------|
Keep Holding On -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- F -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 30-207 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 207 BARS ANALYSED