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Soak The Sin · Blind Melon

EXERCISE 4 OF 42
Groove AC -- Chorus
23 / 113 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Y, CHORUS
PART A
PART K
PART F
PART S
PART Y
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesACYFAAJ+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Soak The Sin on drums

113 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 3:52 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
51/100

hi-hat through bars 1-21, ride through bars 22-26, hi-hat through bars 27-54, ride through bars 55-68, hi-hat through bars 69-95 and ride through bars 96-111, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 55-59, 61 and 63-67 -- 9.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    55
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
Soak The Sin -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- Y, F -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AC -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 14-21 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 19-34 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and Part S -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 49-73 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Soak The Sin?

116 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Soak The Sin hard to play on drums?

51 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 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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.

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