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Birth Ritual - Soundgarden · Soundgarden

EXERCISE 21 OF 35
6-bar fill at bar 36
52 / 106 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O
CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART O
BREAK
5 groovesS7COAYFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Birth Ritual - Soundgarden on drums

106 bars of 7/4 -- not four -- at 132 BPM, 5:15 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
7/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
5:15
DIFFICULTY
70/100

hi-hat through bars 1-61, ride through bars 62-65 and silence through bars 66-106.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 16, and 4 more places -- 29.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a7e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-o-o-o-|
SD |----x----g--x----g--x---x---|
BD |x-----xx--x---xx--x---x---x-|
HF |x---------------------------|
Birth Ritual - Soundgarden -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 29 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 3-33 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part O and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Birth Ritual - Soundgarden?

132 BPM, in 7/4, 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 Birth Ritual - Soundgarden hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 5:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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.

How many fills are in Birth Ritual - Soundgarden?

9 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED