Soothe Me · Beatsteaks

84 bars of 4/4 at 137 BPM, about 2:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
2:28
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-24, 37-44 and 69-76 -- 38.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 137 BPM
SOOTHE ME · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 8 and 52.

LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

84 bars across 9 sections: 72 keep time and 2 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-24.

PART A
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCJAEG+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Soothe Me?

137 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 Soothe Me hard to play on drums?

52 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 2:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 7 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Soothe Me?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 8 and 52.

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