Smile Empty Souls · Yandere Chainsaw Regurgitation Factory

43 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 1:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
43
LENGTH
1:55
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 19-22 and 36-39 -- 18.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 90 BPM
SMILE EMPTY SOULS · BARS 19-20
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 1, 8, 9, 10, 12, 26 and 2 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 8-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 26-27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

43 bars across 7 sections: 25 keep time and 8 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-7.

PART B
CHORUS
PART L
PART N
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesGLBNFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Smile Empty Souls?

90 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 Smile Empty Souls hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

43 bars, about 1:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 9 sittings, about 22 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 Smile Empty Souls?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 1, 8, 9, 10, 12, 26 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 43 BARS ANALYSED
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