Soft Spine · Spiritbox

76 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 2:59 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / HardcoreProgressive90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-23 and 37-39, and 1 more place -- 18.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 102 BPM
SOFT SPINE · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 14, 16, 20, 30, 34, 35 and 13 more.

LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 102 BPM
BARS 34-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

76 bars across 11 sections: 38 keep time, 19 are fills and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-13.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART H
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesKHTBS1+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Soft Spine?

102 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 Spine hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Soft Spine?

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 14, 16, 20, 30, 34, 35 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED
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