Soldier, Poet, King · The Oh Hellos

85 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:23 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
23/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-15, 19-26 and 29, and 5 more places -- 31.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
SOLDIER, POET, KING · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 42, 43, 58 and 68.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

85 bars across 9 sections: 57 keep time, 4 are fills, 1 is a stop and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-41.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART F
OUTRO
BREAK 2
7 groovesEHS9AF+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Soldier, Poet, King?

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 Soldier, Poet, King hard to play on drums?

23 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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, Poet, King?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 42, 43, 58 and 68.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED
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