That's exactly what I did here in this song

http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=13216873

I wanted the drums to play through while the other instruments stopped.

As pointed out above, just add the letter to the end of the chord C...d

and you can add multiple letters to have them exempt from the hold.

Essentially the hold says... hold everything dot dot dot... except.... drums, bass, etc....

so to stop the drums in a hold you add letters for everything else but not the drums.

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