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Soul Bleach · Parkway Drive

EXERCISE 23 OF 63
Groove L
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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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 5
JOIN · 11
LINK · 1
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Soul Bleach on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
50/100

snare through bars 1-18, hi-hat through bars 19-26, ride through bars 27-28, snare through bars 29-30, hi-hat through bars 31-34 and snare through bars 35-38, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxx--xx-xx-----|
Soul Bleach -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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, R -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-19 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part K and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part M and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 33-55 -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part V -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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