So Did We · Isis

175 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 142 BPM, 7:14 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveMetal120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
175
LENGTH
7:14
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-31 and 43-57 -- 17.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 142 BPM
SO DID WE · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 12, 25, 38, 64, 68, 74 and 6 more.

LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 74 · LANDS ON BAR 75

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

175 bars across 11 sections: 94 keep time, 12 are fills, 1 is a stop and 54 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 44-63.

PART C
PART F
PART L
PART L
PART M
PART V
OUTRO 2
9 groovesS11LMVF+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is So Did We?

142 BPM, in 6/4, 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 So Did We hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

175 bars, about 7:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 So Did We?

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 12, 25, 38, 64, 68, 74 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 175 BARS ANALYSED
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