Soul Sick · Rob Thomas

73 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 3:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-6, 23-25 and 27-29, and 1 more place -- 18.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 82 BPM
SOUL SICK · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 22, 30, 45, 49, 53, 57 and 5 more.

LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46
LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50
LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

73 bars across 10 sections: 51 keep time, 11 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-21.

PART A
CHORUS
PART A
PART H
PART O
PART L
PART O
OUTRO
8 groovesDAHOZ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Soul Sick?

82 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 Sick hard to play on drums?

58 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 11 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 Sick?

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 22, 30, 45, 49, 53, 57 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED
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