← SONGS

Soul Burn · Meshuggah

EXERCISE 13 OF 63
Run E1 · Part E (bars 9-18)
45 / 160 BARS COVERED
0 / 63 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
PART F
PART E
PART N
PART S
PART U
PART AC
PART AN
CHORUS
OUTRO
BREAK
11 groovesBEUS11ACBM+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 7
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Soul Burn on drums

160 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 5:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
5:41
DIFFICULTY
70/100

toms through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-23, toms through bars 24-25, hi-hat through bars 26-30, toms through bars 31-32 and snare through bars 33-37, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6, 10-11 and 14-15, and 4 more places -- 7.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10                       11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
CC |------x-----------x--x--|x--x--x-----------x---x-|
HH |o-o-o---o-o-o-o-o-------|--------o-o-o-o-o---o---|
SD |------x-----------x-----|------x----------x---x--|
BD |x--x--------x--x-----x--|x--x--------x--x--------|
Soul Burn -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 46 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- E, U -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part F -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-19 -- 5 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part N and Part S -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part S and Part U -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part U and Part AC -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
START THE COURSE ↑

Questions

What BPM is Soul Burn?

126 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 Burn hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 5:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 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 Soul Burn?

9 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 46 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED