Sold My Soul · Zakk Wylde

80 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 3:43 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 10, and 13 more places -- 42.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 85 BPM
SOLD MY SOUL · BAR 16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 5, 9, 13 and 37.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

80 bars across 8 sections: 54 keep time, 5 are fills, 9 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 38-51.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART G
PART S4
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCDGS1S4+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sold My Soul?

85 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 Sold My Soul hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Sold My Soul?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 5, 9, 13 and 37.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 80 BARS ANALYSED
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