Soulless Neoclassicism · Ritual Coil

293 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 6:09 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
293
LENGTH
6:09
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 48, 90-101 and 133-144, and 2 more places -- 16.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 190 BPM
SOULLESS NEOCLASSICISM · BAR 90
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 2, 24, 29, 45, 46 and 17 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 45-46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

296 bars across 20 sections: 144 keep time, 24 are fills, 76 are stops and 41 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 255-273.

PART G
PART I
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
BREAK 3
PART AA
PART Q
OUTRO
16 groovesJAAIQG+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Soulless Neoclassicism?

190 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 Neoclassicism 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 9 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

293 bars, about 6:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 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 Neoclassicism?

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 2, 24, 29, 45, 46 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 293 BARS ANALYSED
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