Rise Above The Sentiment · Soilwork

117 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 3:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
86/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 41-43, and 3 more places -- 13.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 123 BPM
RISE ABOVE THE SENTIMENT · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 19, 20 and 35 more.

LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 123 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 16 sections: 55 keep time, 41 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 78-83.

PART A
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART Y
PART R
PART AG
CHORUS 3
PART AN
PART R
OUTRO 2
10 groovesDRAXAAN+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rise Above The Sentiment?

123 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 Rise Above The Sentiment hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 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 Rise Above The Sentiment?

18 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 19, 20 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED
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