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Like Suicide - Soundgarden · Soundgarden

EXERCISE 15 OF 48
3-bar fill at bar 45
88 / 164 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART M
PART AH
6 groovesAAHMADS5+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Like Suicide - Soundgarden on drums

164 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 6:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
6:50
DIFFICULTY
71/100

toms through bars 1-40, ride through bars 41-47, toms through bars 48-74, ride through bars 75-81, toms through bars 82-84 and ride through bars 85-88, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-15, 17-20 and 23, and 7 more places -- 31.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
T1 |------X-----X---|
FT |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
BD |x--xx-----x---x-|
HF |g---g---g---g---|
Like Suicide - Soundgarden -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 59 times: bars 16, 21, 24, 29, 40, 41 and 53 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AH -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AC -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Like Suicide - Soundgarden?

96 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 Like Suicide - Soundgarden hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 6:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 16 sittings, about 23 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 Like Suicide - Soundgarden?

13 fills to learn, played 59 times: bars 16, 21, 24, 29, 40, 41 and 53 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 164 BARS ANALYSED