Soft Shock · Yeah Yeah Yeahs

114 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:48 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieElectronic120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-40, 50 and 56-63, and 6 more places -- 52.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
SOFT SHOCK · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 96.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 96 · LANDS ON BAR 97
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

114 bars across 12 sections: 99 keep time, 1 is a fill and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-40.

CHORUS
PART B
PART E
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART I
PART J
9 groovesAIBEJ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Soft Shock?

120 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 Soft Shock hard to play on drums?

56 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Soft Shock?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 96.

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