Soul Bleach · Parkway Drive

111 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 3:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-21, 23-25 and 39-41, and 1 more place -- 11.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 127 BPM
SOUL BLEACH · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 7, 14, 18 and 18 more.

LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 127 BPM
BARS 6-7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 20 sections: 49 keep time, 24 are fills, 16 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-25.

PART A
PART S3
PART K
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART X
PART AC
PART AF
PART M
OUTRO
13 groovesRKHMA+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Soul Bleach?

127 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 Soul Bleach hard to play on drums?

50 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

14 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 7, 14, 18 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED
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