Soul Meets Body · Death Cab For Cutie

110 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieElectronic120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-37 and 47-67 -- 45.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 128 BPM
SOUL MEETS BODY · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

110 bars across 7 sections: 99 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-37.

PART A
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDFAHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Soul Meets Body?

128 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 Meets Body hard to play on drums?

45 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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