Saosin · Voices

156 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:28 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-10, 36 and 38, and 18 more places -- 34.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 180 BPM
SAOSIN · BAR 36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 34, 42, 74, 82, 97, 99 and 3 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 74 · LANDS ON BAR 75
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 82 · LANDS ON BAR 83

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

156 bars across 12 sections: 106 keep time, 9 are fills, 21 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 131-155.

INTRO
PART C
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBHCTP+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Saosin?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Saosin hard to play on drums?

54 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 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 Saosin?

8 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 34, 42, 74, 82, 97, 99 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED
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