Soulless · Henry Wu

225 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 5:00 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
225
LENGTH
5:00
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 53-67 and 130-144 -- 13.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
SOULLESS · BARS 53-54
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 32 and 20 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 24-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 39-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

225 bars across 18 sections: 174 keep time, 26 are fills and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 54-80.

PART J
PART P
CHORUS
PART Z
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART AK
OUTRO 2
13 groovesTPZAKJ+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Soulless?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Soulless hard to play on drums?

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

225 bars, about 5:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 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 Soulless?

9 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 32 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 225 BARS ANALYSED
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