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Soulless Neoclassicism · Ritual Coil

Soulless Neoclassicism · Ritual Coil
EXERCISE 21 OF 65
Groove Q -- Part Q
146 / 296 BARS COVERED
0 / 65 PASSED · 26 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Q, PART I, CHORUS
PART G
PART Q
PART I
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
BREAK 3
PART AA
PART Q
OUTRO
16 groovesJAAIQG+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 4
JOIN · 11
LINK · 5
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Soulless Neoclassicism on drums

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.

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
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
293
LENGTH
6:09
DIFFICULTY
58/100

hi-hat through bars 1-2, kick and crashes through bars 3-6, hi-hat through bars 7-41, kick and crashes through bars 42-48, silence through bars 49-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-81, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    90
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |------------x---|
BD |x---------------|
Soulless Neoclassicism -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- O, I -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-25 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 29-82 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part Q and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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