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Soldier, Poet, King · The Oh Hellos

Soldier, Poet, King · The Oh Hellos
EXERCISE 25 OF 27
Run H1 · Outro (bars 60-72)
68 / 85 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Soldier, Poet, King on drums

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.

23 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
23/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-7, toms through bars 8-44, silence through bars 45-46, toms through bars 47-54, hi-hat through bars 55-57 and toms through bars 58-64, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
FT |x---x---x---x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Soldier, Poet, King -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

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 -- E, H, A -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-17 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus 2 and Part S5 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 48-69 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
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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