Black Soul · Shinedown

73 bars of 4/4 at a walking 87 BPM, 3:21 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 19 and 21-22, and 9 more places -- 22.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 87 BPM
BLACK SOUL · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 18, 30, 40, 45, 46, 50 and 8 more.

LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 87 BPM
BARS 45-46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 87 BPM
BARS 57-58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

73 bars across 7 sections: 48 keep time, 14 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-17.

VERSE
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesJECS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Black Soul?

87 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 Black Soul hard to play on drums?

59 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 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 Black Soul?

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 18, 30, 40, 45, 46, 50 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED
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