5 minute Soothsayer (E Standard) by Soothsayer · John Potato

72 bars, 3:50, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-56 and 65-69 -- 38.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 75 BPM
5 MINUTE SOOTHSAYER (E STANDARD) BY SOOTHSAYER · BAR 37
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

72 bars across 9 sections: 54 keep time, 4 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 38-56.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART D
PART S5
PART D
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGDBS5S1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 5 minute Soothsayer (E Standard) by Soothsayer?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is 5 minute Soothsayer (E Standard) by Soothsayer hard to play on drums?

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED
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