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Soul Sick · Rob Thomas

Soul Sick · Rob Thomas
EXERCISE 7 OF 46
Groove E
37 / 73 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART A
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Soul Sick on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
58/100

hi-hat through bars 1-61, ride through bars 62-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-73.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- A, D -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part A -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 26-46 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part O and Part L -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and Part X -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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