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soldier · Dignify The Sun

soldier · Dignify The Sun
EXERCISE 1 OF 31
Groove C -- Chorus
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0 / 31 PASSED · 40 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
PART A
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCJAS4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play soldier on drums

122 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 2:26 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
2:26
DIFFICULTY
53/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-25, hi-hat through bars 26-37, snare through bars 38-60, silence through bars 61-62 and snare through bars 63-80, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-19, and 13 more places -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
soldier -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 24, 32, 66 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 37-79 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is soldier?

200 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is soldier hard to play on drums?

53 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 2:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 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 soldier?

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 24, 32, 66 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED