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Soraya · Not Animals As Leaders

EXERCISE 20 OF 34
Join Part S to Chorus (bars 39-41)
40 / 82 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S, CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Soraya on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
5/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
67/100

silence through bars 1-7, ride through bars 8-16, hi-hat through bars 17-33, snare through bars 34-50, toms through bars 51-52 and snare through bars 53-54, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a7e+a
CC |x-----x------x--------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---------------x---|
BD |x-x-xxx------x--xx-xx-xx---x|
Soraya -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- K -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V, S -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 8-34 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part K and Part S -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part S and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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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