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Fifteen Souls · Discontent

EXERCISE 7 OF 49
Groove O -- Outro
46 / 104 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART L
PART N
PART R
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesHLNOR+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fifteen Souls on drums

104 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:19 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
2:19
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-17, snare through bars 18-21, hi-hat through bars 22-50, snare through bars 51-75 and hi-hat through bars 76-79, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-49 -- 24.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    27
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|
Fifteen Souls -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 12, 13, 17, 18, 20, 21 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- L -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 6-23 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 48-64 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Fifteen Souls?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Fifteen Souls hard to play on drums?

63 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 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 2:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Fifteen Souls?

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 12, 13, 17, 18, 20, 21 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED