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Diäb Soulé · Acid Bath

EXERCISE 30 OF 67
Groove Z -- Part Z
79 / 130 BARS COVERED
0 / 67 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Z
PART B
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART S7
PART U
PART Z
PART AE
PART AF
PART AL
PART AJ
OUTRO
17 groovesIALAFS7AV+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 5
JOIN · 14
LINK · 3
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Diäb Soulé on drums

130 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 3:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
54/100

ride through bars 1-7, toms through bars 8-9, snare through bars 10-18, silence through bars 19-21, snare through bars 22-42 and silence through bars 43-45, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-12, 14-17 and 34-36, and 3 more places -- 13% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10                       11
    1.....2.....3.....4..... 1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----|x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|------x-----------x---x-|
BD |x-----------x--x-----x--|---x-----x--x--x--------|
Diäb Soulé -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 8, 9, 13, 37, 41, 68 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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 -- I -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AU, AT -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 6-32 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 31-51 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 50-65 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part U and Part Z -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part Z and Part AE -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Diäb Soulé?

132 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Diäb Soulé hard to play on drums?

54 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 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 Diäb Soulé?

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 8, 9, 13, 37, 41, 68 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED