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Soul Man · Sam & Dave

Soul Man · Sam & Dave
EXERCISE 15 OF 15
Play the whole song with the record
76 / 77 BARS COVERED
0 / 15 PASSED · 77 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Soul Man on drums

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

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

TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
2:44
DIFFICULTY
52/100

ride through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-61, ride through bars 62-65 and hi-hat through bars 66-77.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x----xx-x----x|
Soul Man -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-20 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Bars 21-62 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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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