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Soothe Me · Beatsteaks

EXERCISE 9 OF 31
Run C1 · Chorus (bars 9-24)
58 / 84 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Soothe Me on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
2:28
DIFFICULTY
52/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-24, ride through bars 25-28, hi-hat through bars 29-36, snare through bars 37-44 and ride through bars 45-51, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- C, J -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 27-40 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Bars 41-53 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED