Soul Hunt · BLackpuppets

85 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
2:38
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-56 and 81-83 -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
SOUL HUNT · BAR 37
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 23, 34, 36, 84 and 85.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 84-85 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

85 bars across 7 sections: 57 keep time, 5 are fills, 1 is a stop and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 58-79.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART G
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesJKS1BG+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Soul Hunt?

120 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 Hunt hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 2:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 8 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 Hunt?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 23, 34, 36, 84 and 85.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED
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