Back To The Primitive · Soulfly

104 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:47 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 21-23, 27-29 and 31-33, and 4 more places -- 20.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BACK TO THE PRIMITIVE · BARS 21-22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 2, 4, 8, 12, 14, 16 and 18 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 7 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 12 sections: 65 keep time, 24 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-23.

CHORUS
PART G
PART K
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART Q
OUTRO 2
6 groovesAGKQI+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Back To The Primitive?

110 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 Back To The Primitive hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Back To The Primitive?

8 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 2, 4, 8, 12, 14, 16 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
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