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Soul Hacker · Fear Factory

EXERCISE 7 OF 44
Groove F
65 / 101 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Soul Hacker on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
55/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, snare through bars 2-10, hi-hat through bars 11-26, snare through bars 27-35, hi-hat through bars 36-50 and snare through bars 51-76, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x--x-xx-x---x-|
Soul Hacker -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J, G -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 12-40 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 48-60 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part N -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Bars 61-84 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 4 and the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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