Solus · First Fragment

124 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
4:27
DIFFICULTY
82/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-21, 29-31 and 35, and 3 more places -- 11.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 110 BPM
SOLUS · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 72 times: bars 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 66 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

124 bars across 11 sections: 38 keep time, 72 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-31.

PART I
CHORUS
PART AC
PART AH
PART AN
PART AC
CHORUS 2
PART I
OUTRO
6 groovesLIACANQ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Solus?

110 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Solus hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 4:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 18 sittings, about 23 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 Solus?

16 fills to learn, played 72 times: bars 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 66 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED
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