Soul Man · Sam & Dave

77 bars of 4/4 at 113 BPM, about 2:44 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Funk / Soul90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
2:44
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 58% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-16, 25-32 and 41-48, and 2 more places -- 58.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 113 BPM
SOUL MAN · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

77 bars across 10 sections: 63 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-16.

PART A
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART D
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCDAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Soul Man?

113 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 Man hard to play on drums?

52 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 2:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED
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