Soulshine · The Allman Brothers Band

113 bars, 6:36, at 68 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick and nothing else.

RockJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
68 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
6:36
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-3, 25 and 41, and 7 more places -- 37.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 68 BPM
SOULSHINE · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 24, 40, 61, 72, 73, 80 and 3 more.

LOOP · 68 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 68 BPM
BARS 72-73 · LANDS ON BAR 74 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 68 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81
LOOP · 68 BPM
BAR 96 · LANDS ON BAR 97

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 6 sections: 97 keep time, 9 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-23.

PART C
CHORUS
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBCDOS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Soulshine?

68 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Soulshine hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 6:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 5 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Soulshine?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 24, 40, 61, 72, 73, 80 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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