Mourning Soul (Full) · Absurd

39 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 1:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
39
LENGTH
1:57
DIFFICULTY
81/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3-9 and 19, and 2 more places -- 43.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 80 BPM
MOURNING SOUL (FULL) · BAR 5
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 18 and 36.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

39 bars across 5 sections: 30 keep time, 2 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-9.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesACEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mourning Soul (Full)?

80 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 Mourning Soul (Full) hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

39 bars, about 1:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 6 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Mourning Soul (Full)?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 18 and 36.

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