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SOLE · Turnstile

EXERCISE 7 OF 59
Run A1 · Part A (bars 1-5)
57 / 122 BARS COVERED
0 / 59 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
PART E
PART H
PART N
PART K
CHORUS
PART N
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART U
OUTRO
11 groovesQKNHU+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 4
JOIN · 11
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play SOLE on drums

122 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 3:22 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
59/100

snare through bars 1-6, toms through bars 7-12, snare through bars 13-16, hi-hat through bars 17-40, toms through bars 41-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-72, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41, 43 and 45, and 14 more places -- 15.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
FT |---x--x-x-xx--x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
SOLE -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 24, 31, 32 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- Q, K -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part E and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Bars 31-53 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is SOLE?

145 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 SOLE hard to play on drums?

59 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 SOLE?

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 24, 31, 32 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED