Soraya · Not Animals As Leaders

82 bars of 5/4 -- not four -- at 100 BPM, 4:08 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveMetal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
5/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-20 and 29-32 -- 13.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 100 BPM
SORAYA · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 30 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

82 bars across 7 sections: 20 keep time, 36 are fills and 22 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-47.

COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART K
PART S
CHORUS
OUTRO
BREAK
7 groovesVKS7S2Z+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Soraya?

100 BPM, in 5/4, 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 Soraya hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, 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 Soraya?

8 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED
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