Soldier Of Fortune · Deep Purple

47 bars, 2:45, at 66 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

RockJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
66 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
47
LENGTH
2:45
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 13, and 10 more places -- 30.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 66 BPM
SOLDIER OF FORTUNE · BAR 31
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 5, 9, 14, 22, 26, 30 and 3 more.

LOOP · 66 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 66 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 66 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 66 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

47 bars across 4 sections: 28 keep time, 9 are fills, 3 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 35-43.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Soldier Of Fortune?

66 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Soldier Of Fortune hard to play on drums?

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

47 bars, about 2:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 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 Soldier Of Fortune?

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 5, 9, 14, 22, 26, 30 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 47 BARS ANALYSED
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