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Soon · My Bloody Valentine

EXERCISE 1 OF 7
Groove B -- Outro 2 (a two-bar phrase)
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OUTRO 2
2 groovesBAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Soon on drums

190 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 6:55 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
190
LENGTH
6:55
DIFFICULTY
70/100

snare through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-190.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-37 and 39-190 -- 97.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    5                6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x--x----x---|----x--g-x--x---|
BD |xx-x----x-xx-xx-|--------x-xx-xx-|
Soon -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 6 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Soon?

110 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?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

190 bars, about 6:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 3 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 190 BARS ANALYSED