Soft Spot · keshi

80 bars of 4/4 at a walking 106 BPM, 3:01 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

Hip Hop / ReggaePop90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-40, 59-67 and 71-80 -- 43% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 106 BPM
SOFT SPOT · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

80 bars across 5 sections: 75 keep time and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 24-50.

PART A
CHORUS
PART A
OUTRO
3 groovesFAS4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Soft Spot?

106 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 Spot hard to play on drums?

48 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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