soulless 4 · Exile Lord

384 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 12:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
384
LENGTH
12:17
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 350-377 and 382-383 -- 8.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
SOULLESS 4 · BAR 351
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 148, 153, 166, 167, 168, 169 and 19 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 148 · LANDS ON BAR 149 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 153 · LANDS ON BAR 154
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 166-169 · LANDS ON BAR 170 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 179 · LANDS ON BAR 180 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

384 bars across 45 sections: 293 keep time, 26 are fills, 9 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 351-377.

OUTRO
37 groovesAKBDAFOAU+32Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is soulless 4?

125 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 soulless 4 hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

384 bars, about 12:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 140 exercises over 41 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, 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 soulless 4?

10 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 148, 153, 166, 167, 168, 169 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 384 BARS ANALYSED
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