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Soft Shock · Yeah Yeah Yeahs

EXERCISE 27 OF 35
Join Part J to Part K (bars 95-97)
110 / 114 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, PART K
CHORUS
PART B
PART E
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART I
PART J
PART K
9 groovesAIBEJ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 2
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Soft Shock on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
56/100

hi-hat through bars 1-40, kick and crashes through bars 41-48, hi-hat through bars 49-50, snare through bars 51-55, hi-hat through bars 56-65 and snare through bars 66-70, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-----x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Soft Shock -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Bars 41-106 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 48-66 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 64-73 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 77-91 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 89-98 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 95-110 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED