Hole In My Soul · Aerosmith

106 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 5:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

RockUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
5:18
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 56% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 19-21 and 25-27, and 10 more places -- 55.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 80 BPM
HOLE IN MY SOUL · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 12, 24, 28, 46, 54, 55 and 8 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47
LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 54-55 · LANDS ON BAR 56 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 7 sections: 77 keep time, 14 are fills, 1 is a stop and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 29-45.

COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCRES1DFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hole In My Soul?

80 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 Hole In My Soul hard to play on drums?

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 5:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Hole In My Soul?

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 12, 24, 28, 46, 54, 55 and 8 more.

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