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Soon · Masayoshi Takanaka

EXERCISE 3 OF 33
Groove B -- Part B
79 / 166 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 27 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART A, PART E
PART B
PART A
PART E
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesQALEB+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Soon on drums

166 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
5:32
DIFFICULTY
55/100

hi-hat through bars 1-60, ride through bars 61-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-166.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 99-130 and 151-166 -- 28.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    99               100
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |x-x-x-o-x-x-o-x-|x-x-x-o-x-x-o-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|--x-----x-x-----|
Soon -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 20, 36, 44, 60, 71, 72 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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, A -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B and Part A -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part H -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 74-101 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Soon?

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 Soon hard to play on drums?

55 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

166 bars, about 5:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Soon?

3 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 20, 36, 44, 60, 71, 72 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 166 BARS ANALYSED