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Sole Survivor · Helloween

EXERCISE 9 OF 66
Groove U -- Part U
78 / 179 BARS COVERED
0 / 66 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART U
PART H
PART U
PART AA
CHORUS
PART AA
CHORUS 2
PART AL
CHORUS 3
PART U
OUTRO
7 groovesABAAHXAL+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 8
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sole Survivor on drums

179 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:29 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
179
LENGTH
4:29
DIFFICULTY
63/100

snare through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-12, ride through bars 13-23, snare through bars 24-25, hi-hat through bars 26-33 and ride through bars 34-41, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42-57 and 77-91 -- 17.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    43
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxx---xxx---|
Sole Survivor -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 44 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- AA -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AF, AL -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part H -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through Part U -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part H and Part U -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part U -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part U and Part X -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Through Part X and Part AA -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sole Survivor?

160 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 Sole Survivor hard to play on drums?

63 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

179 bars, about 4:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 15 sittings, about 28 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 Sole Survivor?

14 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 44 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 179 BARS ANALYSED