Soul With A Capital 'S' · Tower Of Power

54 bars of 4/4 at 119 BPM, about 1:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Funk / SoulJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
119 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
54
LENGTH
1:49
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 57% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-26, 30-34 and 40-49 -- 57.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 119 BPM
SOUL WITH A CAPITAL 'S' · BAR 11
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 38 and 50.

LOOP · 119 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39
LOOP · 119 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

54 bars across 5 sections: 47 keep time and 2 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-34.

PART C
PART E
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesFCEHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Soul With A Capital 'S'?

119 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 With A Capital 'S' hard to play on drums?

60 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

54 bars, about 1:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Soul With A Capital 'S'?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 38 and 50.

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