Soul · Broken Crown

176 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
4:42
DIFFICULTY
91/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-40 and 89-104 -- 19.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
SOUL · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 16, 24, 42, 44, 46, 48 and 22 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 55-56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

176 bars across 12 sections: 119 keep time, 29 are fills, 6 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 89-107.

PART A
CHORUS
PART M
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO 2
11 groovesIAMFQ+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Soul?

150 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 hard to play on drums?

91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 85 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

176 bars, about 4:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 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?

9 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 16, 24, 42, 44, 46, 48 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 176 BARS ANALYSED
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