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Soldat · STURMMANN

Soldat · STURMMANN
EXERCISE 11 OF 26
Run B1 · Part B (bars 1-17)
47 / 105 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 17 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesGJMBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Soldat on drums

105 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
41/100

hi-hat through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-17, hi-hat through bars 18-25, snare through bars 26-38, hi-hat through bars 39-46 and snare through bars 47-55, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-25, 39-46 and 56-62 -- 21.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o---o---o---o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Soldat -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 13, 17, 38, 63, 67, 83 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- G, J -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-68 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Soldat?

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 Soldat hard to play on drums?

41 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Soldat?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 13, 17, 38, 63, 67, 83 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED