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House Of My Soul · Altaria

EXERCISE 1 OF 37
Groove C -- Part C
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0 / 37 PASSED · 29 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, PART D, CHORUS
PART C
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
PART C
PART D
OUTRO
4 groovesHDCS8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play House Of My Soul on drums

113 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
56/100

toms through bar 1, ride through bars 2-18, hi-hat through bars 19-34, ride through bars 35-42, hi-hat through bars 43-49 and ride through bars 50-105, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5 and 7, and 25 more places -- 25.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-x-----|
House Of My Soul -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 18, 34, 42 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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, H -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 48-68 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through Part C -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 65-104 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is House Of My Soul?

135 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 House Of My Soul hard to play on drums?

56 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 House Of My Soul?

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 18, 34, 42 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED