Soldier Of Love · Pearl Jam

79 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 2:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
2:45
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-6, 8-14 and 28-35, and 1 more place -- 34.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 115 BPM
SOLDIER OF LOVE · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 7, 15, 19, 39, 47, 55 and 4 more.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 71 · LANDS ON BAR 72

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

79 bars across 7 sections: 61 keep time and 10 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-14.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesEBLFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Soldier Of Love?

115 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 Soldier Of Love hard to play on drums?

47 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 2:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 5 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Of Love?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 7, 15, 19, 39, 47, 55 and 4 more.

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