Soil · System of a Down

132 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 3:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 29, 31, 33, 35, 37, 45 and 13 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 16 sections: 92 keep time, 19 are fills and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-28.

PART D
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART C
PART L
PART Z
OUTRO
12 groovesECLZAG+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Soil?

145 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 Soil hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 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 Soil?

13 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 29, 31, 33, 35, 37, 45 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED
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