Soul Hacker · Fear Factory

101 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:11 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalElectronic120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 27-29, and 8 more places -- 27.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 125 BPM
SOUL HACKER · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 5, 10, 14, 18, 30, 35 and 11 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 13 sections: 69 keep time, 17 are fills, 2 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 65-72.

CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART N
PART J
CHORUS 4
8 groovesBJNTR+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Soul Hacker?

125 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 Hacker hard to play on drums?

55 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Hacker?

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 5, 10, 14, 18, 30, 35 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED
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