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EXERCISE 3 OF 51
Groove N -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
49 / 196 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART B
PART E
PART B
CHORUS
PART V
PART B
PART H
PART AB
BREAK 2
9 groovesNBABHV+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Souls To Deny on drums

196 bars at 203 BPM -- fast, and 4:15 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

99 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
203 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
196
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
99/100

toms through bar 1, ride through bars 2-17, hi-hat through bars 18-27, ride through bars 28-35, silence through bars 36-38 and toms through bars 39-41, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 28-30, and 5 more places -- 13.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    2
    1...........2...........3...........4...........5...........6...........
RD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
Souls To Deny -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 17, 82, 83, 84, 96, 105 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- B -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Through Part E -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 34-48 -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Souls To Deny?

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

Is Souls To Deny hard to play on drums?

99 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 93 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

196 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 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 Souls To Deny?

6 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 17, 82, 83, 84, 96, 105 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 196 BARS ANALYSED